Unit 16. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Group 2:
Truong Thi Lan
Tran Thuy An
Le Thi My Linh
Nguyen Thi Le
Nguyen Thi Na
Nguyen Thi Mai
Pham Thi Thanh Tam
the Association of South East Asian Nations
ASEAN
Outline
ASEAN Member States
THE ASEAN CHARTER
ASEAN STRUCTURE
ASEAN SUMMIT
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ASEAN Member States
THE ASEAN CHARTER
The ASEAN Charter serves as a firm foundation in achieving the ASEAN Community by providing legal status and institutional framework for ASEAN. It also codifies ASEAN norms, rules and values; sets clear targets for ASEAN; and presents accountability and compliance.

The importance of the ASEAN Charter:
New political commitment at the top level
New and enhanced commitments
New legal framework, legal personality
New ASEAN bodies
Two new openly-recruited DSGs
More ASEAN meetings
More roles of ASEAN Foreign Ministers
New and enhanced role of the Secretary-General of ASEAN
Other new initiatives and changes
VIETNAM IN ASEAN
On 28 July 1995 Vietnam was admitted formally as the seventh member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
ASEAN is now twenty eight years old and has been by far the most successful and prominent Third World regional organisation.
BENEFITS:
Reversed its policies on Cambodia.
Accepted the Cambodian peace settlement .
Clearly endorsed the model of regional cooperation pursued by its former adversaries
Having lost the identity in foreign policy provided previously by its association with the seemingly powerful Soviet bloc, is now an accepted regional actor in Southeast Asia.
Membership of ASEAN has already helped Vietnam consolidate its wider international relationships.
Vietnam now has diplomatic relations with all major powers in the Asia-Pacific region.
The value of ASEAN membership to Vietnam has also been illustrated by the support it has gained for membership of the new World Trade Organisation
CHALLENGES:
Managing bilateral and intra-ASEAN relations
- Building up trust and confidence among six very diverse states
- Vietnam`s political system may also have an impact on the character of its interactions within ASEAN.
Coping with China
- Vietnam has had both a very long and a complex relationship with China which has within the last two decades involved serious conflict and a major Chinese punitive invasion of Vietnam.
- Vietnam does not want to discord with China but in the future there could be differences in its interests and its approach to China and those of some other ASEAN members.
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