48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting, Joint Communique

Joint Communiqué 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ASEAN

Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

Thursday, 6th August 2015

We, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), met on 4 August 2015 at the 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (48th AMM) in Kuala Lumpur. His Excellency Dato’ Sri Anifah Aman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia chaired the meeting. 

2. We had a productive deliberation under the theme “Our People, Our Community, Our Vision”, to create an ASEAN Community which is truly peopleoriented, people-centred comprising all areas of cooperation. We also had fruitful discussions on regional and international issues as well as our ongoing efforts to maintain peace, stability and prosperity in the region.     

ASEAN COMMUNITY BUILDING 

3. We welcomed the successful convening of the 26th ASEAN Summit held in Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi on 27 April 2015 and the outcome documents. We will continue to work to realise our Leaders’ aspiration to create an ASEAN Community as envisaged in the Cha-Am Hua Hin Declaration on a Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015), the Bandar Seri Begawan Declaration and the Nay Pyi Taw Declaration on the ASEAN Community’s Post-2015 Vision, and the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on a People-Oriented, People-Centred ASEAN.  

4. We reaffirmed that the ASEAN Community should be built on the established foundation of the ASEAN Charter, the Treaty of Amity and Co-operation in Southeast Asia (TAC) and the Bali Concord III and its Plan of Action (2013-2017). We recognised the importance of moderation and tolerance in ASEAN Community building and remain committed to implementing the Langkawi Declaration on the Global Movement of Moderates 2015.  

5. We are confident that the action lines under the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community 2009-2015, the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity, and the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Strategic Framework and its Work Plan II (2009-2015)