ASEAN Affairs: Meeting on ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision

Myanmar Delegation led by Dr. Wah Wah Maung, Eminent Person (EP) of Myanmar and Deputy Ministerfor Investment and Foreign Economic Relations attended the 14th Meeting of High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision (HLTF-ACV) held in Pattaya of Thailand from the 27th to the 30th of April.

At the meeting, the Deputy Minister commended High-Level Representatives for their efforts on the completion of the first reading of the APSC Strategic Plan of the ASEAN Community Vision 2045 and looked forward to its narrative format for further negotiations. On Strengthening ASEAN’s Capacity and Institutional Effectiveness, the Deputy Minister highlighted the need of strengthening not limited to ASEAN Secretariat but for respective national secretariat so as to bridge the gap existed between human resources and resource mobilization.

She stressed the need for both top-down guidance and bottom-up initiatives on the development of the respective strategic plansand suggested to consider the placement of the cross-cutting action lines in consultation with the Co-Chairs of High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration (HLTF-EI), Senior Officials Committee for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOCA) and ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee (ACCC).

The Meeting noted the progress made in the Implementation of the HLTF-ACV’s Recommendations on Strengthening ASEAN’s Capacity and Institutional Effectiveness and tasked ASEAN Secretariat to work the list of proposed action lines in line with the recommendation which are yet to be implemented.

The meeting also tasked ASEAN Secretariat to convert the matrix format of APSC Strategic Plan to narrative format and agreed to decide the placement of the elements of Institutional Strengthening-related Strategic Measures at later stage.

The Meeting adopted the Summary Decisions and Summary Reports of the 13th HLTF-ACV.The HLTF-ACV was established in 2022 to develop the ASEAN Community Vision 2045 and attendant document(s) in close consultation with the three ASEAN Community Pillars and ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee in accordance with the Ha Noi Declaration on the ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision and the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community’s Post- 2025 Vision.