Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed to recommend Vision 2045 for adoption by leaders at the 43rd ASEAN Summit.
“The foreign ministers agreed to recommend to the leaders several documents, including the ASEAN Vision 2045,” said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi to journalists after the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta, Monday.
The ASEAN 2045 Vision was initiated by Indonesia as chair of ASEAN this year, as a new guide for ASEAN after 2025 through ASEAN Concord IV.
Apart from this vision, said Retno, the 43rd ASEAN Summit will produce concrete documents related to decision-making procedures in emergency situations, as well as cooperation on food security, energy, health, digital economy and maritime.
During the meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers, they also welcomed Luxembourg’s intention to accede to the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation (TAC), accept Morocco as a sector partner, and accept the Netherlands as a development partner.
So far ASEAN has produced two declarations known as Bali Concord I in 1976 and Bali Concord II in 2003.
The Bali Concord I document is a TAC that regulates patterns of behavior between member countries to promote peaceful methods of resolving disputes between them, and not use violence.
In 2003, Bali Concord II was born, which is an ASEAN agreement to build a community based on political and security pillars, economic pillars and socio-cultural pillars.
This declaration resulted in the ASEAN Charter which confirmed the association as a rules-based organization, as well as the precursor to the formation of the ASEAN Community.
Meanwhile, the 2011 ASEAN Summit in Nusa Dua resulted in the Bali Declaration on ASEAN Community in a Global Community of Nations, which was later referred to as Bali Concord III.
The spirit of this declaration is to ensure ASEAN’s active participation and contribution in overcoming various fundamental global problems that are occurring in the present era.
The 43rd ASEAN Summit was held in Jakarta on 5-7 September 2023, under the chairmanship of Indonesia with the theme “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth”.
Through this theme, Indonesia wants to make ASEAN remain relevant so that it is able to face various challenges in the future and promote stability and peace in the region.
Indonesia will also continue to strengthen concrete cooperation so that the Southeast Asia region remains the center of world economic growth. (mhn/bbs)
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