ASEAN-U.S. Special Summit 2022, Joint Vision Statement & More News Here

WE, the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States collect on the event of the ASEAN-U.S. Special Summit, the first-ever to be held in Washington, D.C., on 12-13 May 2022.

EMPHASIZING the significance of adhering to key rules, shared values and norms enshrined within the Charter of the United Nations, the ASEAN Charter, the Declaration on Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality (ZOPFAN), the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP); 

EMPHASIZING the significance of making a peaceable surroundings for additional enhancing cooperation and strengthening the present bonds of friendship amongst our nations in line with the rules of equality, partnership, session, and mutual respect, guided by the rules of the East Asia Summit (EAS) Declaration on the Principles for Mutually Beneficial Relations (Bali Principles); 

RECOGNIZING that our cooperation has lengthy been indispensable to ASEAN, to the United States, and to the broader worldwide group, starting with our first dialogue, in Manila in 1977, and rising with the United States’ signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia; with the institution of a U.S. Mission to ASEAN, in Jakarta; and with the founding of the ASEAN-U.S. Summit; 

NOTING that each the AOIP and the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States share related basic rules in selling an open, inclusive, and rules-based regional structure, by which ASEAN is central, alongside companions who share in these targets; 

REAFFIRMING our shared dedication to strengthen and construct extra complete ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue Relations, which have lengthy been indispensable to ASEAN and the United States, in addition to the broader area and the worldwide group, so as to proceed selling and sustaining peace, safety, stability and prosperity within the area; to make sure that relations stay adaptable to fulfill new challenges; and to appropriately cooperate in worldwide and regional fora of which ASEAN Member States and the United States are members. 

FURTHER REAFFIRMING our shared dedication to sustaining and selling peace, safety and stability within the area, in addition to to the peaceable decision of disputes, together with full respect for authorized and diplomatic processes, with out resorting to the menace or use of power, in accordance with worldwide legislation. 

WE HEREBY DECLARE: 

As we rejoice the 45^th anniversary of ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue Relations in 2022, we commit to ascertain an ASEAN-U.S. Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that’s significant, substantive, and mutually helpful on the 10^th ASEAN-U.S. Summit in November 2022. We stay up for the early completion of the required course of.

Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, constructing higher well being safety, and recovering collectively 

• We assist ASEAN’s pandemic restoration and well being safety efforts by strengthening regional and nationwide well being methods and capabilities, similar to by the ASEAN-U.S. Health Futures initiative, and decide to ample, stronger and sustainable world financing for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, together with supporting ongoing efforts with the World Bank and the World Health Organization. In welcoming assist prolonged by ASEAN Dialogue Partners by varied initiatives, together with the Quad Vaccine Partnership, we stay dedicated to facilitating equitable entry to secure, inexpensive and high quality medication and well being providers. We are additionally dedicated to increasing native and regional sustainable manufacturing capability of important medical merchandise, together with by switch of data on voluntary and mutually agreed phrases and provision of technical help. We are dedicated to investing in and strengthening well being methods by Universal Health Coverage, specifically main well being care and entry to important well being providers, and increasing and coaching the well being workforce as robust foundations for regional and world well being and well being safety. 

Strengthening Economic Ties and Connectivity 

• We are dedicated to persevering with to advance stronger, extra equitable, extra inclusive economicgrowth and sustainable improvement, together with by the implementation of the ASEAN-U.S. Trade and Investment Framework Arrangement and Expanded Economic Engagement Initiatives Workplan, and thru the important financial participation of the U.S. within the area. 
    
• We are dedicated to working to fulfill the area’s infrastructure wants by catalyzing funding in high-standard, clear, low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure tasks that advance inclusive and sustainable financial development that meet relevant worldwide labor requirements and environmental protections.
    
• We are dedicated to persevering with to cooperate to advertise commerce and funding and facilitating resilient world provide chains and seamless regional connectivity, together with for important items similar to medical provides, medicines, vaccines, meals and agricultural merchandise, commodities, high-tech merchandise, and different important provides and providers, contributing to sustainable financial restoration and resilience within the area. 
    
• We search to deepen our collaboration on transport connectivity, together with air, land, maritime, and transport facilitation program to advance sustainable infrastructure improvement and assist rising applied sciences, together with electrical automobiles. 
    
• We stay dedicated to and invested in prosperity and improvement in ASEAN and the United States. We will actively associate within the discussions to strengthen regional and world governance methods, and we stay up for additional strengthening cooperation together with by related initiatives or frameworks of the United States or ASEAN. 
    
• We are dedicated to bettering cybersecurity capabilities, selling digital literacy and inclusion, and strengthening frameworks and insurance policies that foster effectivity, innovation, communication, secure and equitable use of the web and financial prosperity whereas exchanging views and experiences on cyber threats and on regulatory framework and technical requirements that defend private information in gentle of rising applied sciences and their vulnerabilities.
    

Promoting Maritime Cooperation 

• We observe the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/75/239 emphasizing within the Preamble, the common and unified character of the 1982 UNCLOS, and reaffirming that the Convention units out the authorized framework inside which all actions within the oceans and seas have to be carried out and is of strategic significance as the premise for nationwide, regional and world motion and cooperation within the marine sector, and that its integrity must be maintained. 
    
• We are dedicated to advancing our cooperation within the maritime area by ASEAN-led mechanisms. We plan to forge new ties in addition to to advertise cooperation and coordination amongst our related companies, together with maritime legislation enforcement companies, to collaborate to enhance maritime area consciousness, search and rescue, maritime safety, and to curb unlawful, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing by sharing of knowledge, greatest practices and experience, in addition to technical help, which can complement, and never duplicate the present mechanisms. We additionally decide to persevering with efforts to guard, restore, and sustainably handle the marine surroundings.  
    
• We are devoted to sustaining peace, safety, and stability within the area, and to making sure maritime safety and security, in addition to freedom of navigation and overflight and different lawful makes use of of the seas as described within the 1982 UNCLOS, and unimpeded lawful maritime commerce in addition to non-militarization and self-restraint within the conduct of actions.  
    
• We recognise the advantages of getting the South China Sea as a sea of peace, stability, and prosperity. We emphasise the significance of sensible measures that might scale back tensions and the danger of accidents, misunderstandings, and miscalculation. We harassed the significance of enterprise confidence constructing and preventive measures to reinforce, amongst others, belief and confidence amongst events. We additional reaffirmed the necessity to pursue peaceable decision of disputes in accordance with universally acknowledged rules of worldwide legislation, together with the 1982 UNCLOS. 
    
• We underscored the significance of the total and efficient implementation of the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties within the South China Sea (DOC) in its entirety. We emphasised the necessity to keep and promote an surroundings conducive to the Code of Conduct within the South China Sea (COC) negotiations. We welcome additional progress in direction of the early conclusion of an efficient and substantive COC in line with worldwide legislation, together with the 1982 UNCLOS.
    

Enhancing People-to-people connectivity 

• We are dedicated to investing in human capital improvement, empowering youth and weak or marginalized teams, and strengthening the connections between our peoples, amongst others, assist for English language, digital abilities, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) trainings within the area, together with by the Billion Futures Program and the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI).
    
• We decide to working with companions, together with corporations and universities, to extend entry to schooling whereas fostering collaboration and exchanges amongst our college students and employees. Furthermore, we’re dedicated to empowering ladies and women and selling gender fairness and equality by enhanced engagement in ASEAN-led mechanisms, together with by assist for ASEAN’s gender packages and initiatives. We additionally decide to advancing the rights of individuals with disabilities by supporting implementation of the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan on Mainstreaming the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 

Supporting Sub-regional Development 

• We are dedicated to supporting ASEAN Centrality and unity in selling ASEAN’s sub-regional improvement. We additional decide to selling the steadiness, peace, prosperity, and sustainable improvement of the Mekong sub-region by shared initiatives below the Mekong-U.S. Partnership (MUSP), which enhances the Friends of the Mekong, and helps the implementation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 and the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan IV (2021-2025).  
    
• We assist ASEAN’s efforts in selling equitable improvement, together with within the fields of vitality transition, transportation, environmental safety, regional sources administration, and water information sharing in accordance with the Mekong River Commission’s Procedures for Data and Information Exchange and Sharing (PDIES), by aligning sub-regional development with the excellent improvement of ASEAN, and to advertise complementarity and synergy amongst ASEAN, MUSP and different current Mekong cooperation mechanisms. 

Leveraging Technologies and Promoting Innovation 

• We are dedicated to additional exploring cooperation in areas of mutual profit similar to good manufacturing, blockchain functions, commerce facilitation, digital connectivity, digitalisation and e-commerce of MSMEs, e-services, digital monetary providers and regional cost connectivity,new and rising applied sciences in step with related ASEAN agreements and frameworks, in addition to enhance technical help for ASEAN Member States to advertise innovation, and capability constructing on digital abilities.  
    
• We decide to assist the event of ASEAN’s digital infrastructure, to advertise the event of peaceable, safe, open, interoperable, dependable, inclusive, and resilient Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ecosystems and 5G networks, and discover methods to strengthen cooperation on digital financial system, good, sustainable metropolis improvement and rising applied sciences, together with by the U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP).  
    
• We are dedicated to enhancing collaboration in biotechnology, good farming, each precision agriculture and climate-smart agriculture (CSA), meals science, meteorology, microelectronics, marine science, vitality, and house.  

Addressing Climate Change 

• We are additional dedicated to working collectively to advance our respective nationally decided contributions (NDC). We affirm the important thing function that sub-national actors play in advancing local weather motion, and intend to collaborate collectively within the clear vitality transition, together with by financing and expertise. We acknowledge the significance of taking robust motion to cut back methane emissions globally, together with by efforts underway such because the Global Methane Pledge. 
    
• We are dedicated to intensifying our partnership to bolster ASEAN’s capability to enhancedisaster resiliency and adapt to the consequences of local weather change, similar to rising sea ranges, extra frequent flooding, drought and different excessive climate occasions, heightened danger of water-energy-food insecurity, and ever-more-destructive storms. 
    
• We resolve to reinforce vitality transition and resilience in  an inclusive and simply method by the facilitation of fresh and renewable vitality improvement, the promotion of public-private collaboration to handle transition financing wants, together with by blended finance, and the deployment of superior and rising low-carbon vitality applied sciences in supporting elevated entry to vitality providers and  vitality safety, together with ongoing efforts, similar to components of the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) that assist the acceleration of vitality transition and strengthening of vitality resilience in ASEAN, significantly the ASEAN Power Grid.
    
• We resolve to work collectively to preserve ASEAN’s wealthy biodiversity and its pure capital, together with by stopping, halting and reversing deforestation, and the degradation of ecosystems, in addition to the restoration of important ecosystems together with forests, and wetlands, coastal and marine ecosystems, and the continued collaboration with the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). 

Preserving Peace, Building Trust 

• We assist ASEAN’s efforts to protect the Southeast Asian area as a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone and freed from all different weapons of mass destruction, as enshrined within the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ Treaty) and the ASEAN Charter tostrengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime, and to nuclear disarmament as stipulated in Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality as set forth in NPT Article IV. We stay dedicated to universalization of the IAEA extra protocol, and assist full implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (CWC) and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BTWC). 
    
• We reaffirm a shared dedication to the objective of the whole denuclearization and the institution of a everlasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. We proceed to name on the DPRK to completely adjust to the related UN Security Council resolutions, bearing in mind the worldwide group’s name for diplomacy and within the curiosity of sustaining peace and safety within the area.
    
• We stay deeply involved over the disaster in Myanmar. We spotlight Myanmar’s dedication to the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus throughout  the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting on 24 April 2021 and urge the well timed and full implementation of the Five-Point Consensus. We will proceed to assist ASEAN’s efforts to facilitate a peaceable answer within the curiosity of the individuals of Myanmar, together with by the work of the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar,in constructing confidence and belief with full entry to all events involved, and efficient supply of humanitarian help to the individuals of Myanmar, together with these who’re essentially the most in want, with out discrimination. We reiterate our dedication to peace and stability within the area and proceed to name for the speedy cessation of violence in Myanmar and for the discharge of allpolitical detainees, together with foreigners. We will redouble our collective efforts in direction of a peaceable answer in Myanmar that additionally displays a continued dedication to human rights and basic freedoms, as outlined within the ASEAN Charter. We welcome shut coordination between the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar and the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Myanmar to make sure synergy on this vital endeavor. 
    
• With regard to Ukraine, as for all nations, we proceed to reaffirm our respect for sovereignty, political independence, and territorial integrity. We reiterate our name for compliance with the UN Charter and worldwide legislation. We underline the significance of a right away cessation of hostilities and creating an enabling surroundings for peaceable decision. We assist the efforts of the UN Secretary-General within the seek for a peaceable answer. We additionally name for the facilitation of fast, secure and unhindered entry to humanitarian help for these in want in Ukraine, and for the safety of civilians, humanitarian personnel, and individuals in weak conditions.
    
• As we proceed with implementation of this bold agenda within the coming months and years, we stay up for reaching a brand new degree of cooperation and partnership and activity our Ministers to coordinate the implementation of this Joint Vision Statement.
    

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