Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 127qCooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, published in 2022.

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12 versions · 2003–2025

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3 topics

Cooperation Between Organizations Regional Cooperation Southeast Asia

What does this mandate say?

23 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the progress towards achieving the implementation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Community Vision 2025, which will ensure lasting peace and stability, sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and social progress in the region;

Reaffirms the commitment of the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to further strengthening their partnership, as described in the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Partnership between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations, issued on 19 November 2011, and in ensuring their current Plan of Action (2021–2025);

Encourages the United Nations, including the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and other relevant United Nations entities, to continue to work closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Community Vision 2025, to promote complementarities and partnership between the two to ensure that regional integration efforts in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reinforce the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals and vice versa, through implementation of the Complementarities Road Map (2020–2025), the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development, the annual High-level Brainstorming Dialogue on Enhancing Complementarities between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Community Vision 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as other concrete activities and projects under their Plan of Action (2021–2025);

Welcomes the United Nations support for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Centre for Sustainable Development Studies and Dialogue in Thailand in order to encourage research and studies, build capacities of States members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as well as support dialogue and enhance cooperation on sustainable development between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and its external partners, including the United Nations and its relevant entities;

Encourages continued efforts to resume the convening of annual meetings of the President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the States members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with a view to further enhancing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations comprehensive partnership, including by reviewing, overseeing and directing the implementation of the present resolution;

Encourages the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to continue regular meetings of senior officials, ministerial meetings and summits, and in this regard welcomes the convening of the Twelfth Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations on 11 November 2022;

Encourages the United Nations to provide strengthened support, including through exchanges of relevant experiences, information, best practices, lessons learned and capacity-building, based on mutual respect, for the relevant Association of Southeast Asian Nations mechanisms and Association of Southeast Asian Nations-led arrangements, as appropriate;

Reaffirms the importance of enhancing regional security and cooperation and the peaceful settlement of disputes to promote peace, stability and prosperity, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia and international law;

Supports the convening of workshops and seminars between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations to promote dialogue on regional and global security issues, including conflict prevention, preventive diplomacy, disarmament and non-proliferation, cybersecurity, peacekeeping operations, transnational crime, illicit trafficking in wildlife and timber, counter-terrorism and the prevention of violent extremism as and when conducive to terrorism, based on mutual trust, shared interests and mutual respect;

Encourages cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to exchange expertise, best practices, lessons learned and experiences and promote capacity-building in countering terrorism and radicalization to terrorism and in preventing violent extremism as and when conducive to terrorism, inter alia through the provision of United Nations technical support under the coordination of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Bali Work Plan, as well as in addressing the growing threats of transnational crime and cross-border challenges, which require comprehensive approaches, including through effective regional cooperation, in order to foster a more secure, interconnected and prosperous Association of Southeast Asian Nations community;

Also encourages cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the field of human rights, particularly through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, based on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Rights Declaration, the Phnom Penh Statement on the Adoption of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Rights Declaration, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments and mechanisms to which all of the States members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are parties, and in this regard takes note of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Rights Declaration in 2022 and the meeting on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights-United Nations interface, held on 16 November 2022 in Cambodia;

Acknowledges the importance of maritime cooperation, including maritime security cooperation, between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including in the form of training workshops and the exchange of relevant experiences, information, best practices and lessons learned, to further promote the rule of law and the implementation of relevant international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and other international instruments, and underscores the need to further strengthen such cooperation in order to address related issues and challenges;

Reiterates the importance of regional integration and enhancement of connectivity in the South-East Asian region and their potential contribution to regional and global peace, prosperity and sustainable development, and in this regard encourages cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations to narrow the development gap within and between the States members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and also encourages support by the United Nations in the implementation of the Master Plan on Association of Southeast Asian Nations Connectivity 2025;

Welcomes the ongoing progress of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in implementing its Economic Community Blueprint 2025, and encourages continued efforts and enhanced cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations towards deepening economic integration both within the region and in the global economy, including through capacity-building and advisory services in areas such as trade and investment, the development of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, regulatory frameworks, global supply chains and resource management, tourism, energy sustainability, interconnectivity, science, technology and innovation, paperless trade and e-commerce;

Encourages continued partnership of the United Nations in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Smart Cities Network, which is part of the integration efforts of the Association that synergize development efforts, promote greater cooperation among member cities, the private sector and external partners, spearhead smart city development and sustainable urbanization, with the goal of improving the lives of the citizens of the States members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by using technology and digital infrastructure as enablers, and facilitate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals;

Also encourages efforts to develop effective partnerships and promote closer cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace, by engaging in joint peacekeeping and peacebuilding-related activities and training under the Plan of Action (2021–2025), increasing women’s participation in peace processes and pursuing the United Nations triangular partnership project among participating States members of the Association, and in the context of the Action for Peacekeeping initiative and Action for Peacekeeping Plus;

Welcomes efforts to promote mine action at the global level, including at the United Nations, and encourages collaboration between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Mine Action Centre, including the sharing of expertise and best practices, training and capacity-building activities, in addressing the humanitarian aspects of landmines and explosive remnants of war;

Encourages closer cooperation on disaster risk reduction, emergency response and management between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in order to ensure an effective response to and management of natural disasters, strengthen climate change adaptation measures and build resilience to disasters through the implementation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations Joint Strategic Plan of Action on Disaster Management (2021–2025), to enhance the capacity of and technical support to Association of Southeast Asian Nations relevant initiatives and centres through the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and to realize the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to be a global leader in disaster management;

Also encourages closer cooperation on the culture of peace agenda between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including through the six thrusts of the 2017 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Declaration on Culture of Prevention for a Peaceful, Inclusive, Resilient, Healthy and Harmonious Society;

Further encourages cooperation and collaborative efforts between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in addressing environmental sustainability, climate change, biodiversity conservation, including through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Centre for Biodiversity, as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Centre for Climate Change in Brunei Darussalam, once established, and the protection, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems, including the prevention and reduction of marine plastic debris;

Encourages the continued conduct of the two organizations’ secretariat-to-secretariat meeting to review the implementation of their Plan of Action (2021–2025), noting the most recent meeting, held on the sidelines of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, on 21 September 2022 in New York, and further encourages the frequent exchange of information between sectoral desk officers of the two secretariats on programmes, activities and projects to explore potential partnerships in areas of mutual interest;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, at its seventy-ninth session, a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-ninth session, under the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations”, the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations”.

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