Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, is scheduled to attend the 20th ASEAN Summit to be held on 2-4 April 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia has designated the theme “ASEAN: One Community, One Destiny” for its chairmanship in 2012. In addition to the meeting among themselves, ASEAN Leaders will also meet with ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) representatives, Civil Society Organization representatives, and Youth representatives with a view to promoting participation by all sectors of society in building a people-centred ASEAN Community.
Prime Minister Yingluck will also attend the 6th Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle Summit, to be held back-to-back with the 20th ASEAN Summit.
At the upcoming ASEAN Summit, Prime Minister Yingluck is expected to focus on the following issues:
1) ASEAN Community-building including the implementation of the Blueprints for the three pillars of the ASEAN Community, such as the conclusion of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, service liberalization, trade facilitation, and the establishment of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which is a wider regional economic integration with ASEAN at its center, as well as regional cooperation in disaster management, drugs matters, trans-boundary haze pollution and other cross-border challenges.
2) Enhanced Connectivity both within and beyond ASEAN, including institutional connectivity with a view to ensuring free flows of goods and peoples across borders, as well as to people-to-people connectivity, so as to create a sense of community among the peoples in the region.
3) Regional and international issues, with a view to devloping a more coordinated position and action on these issues and promote ASEAN’s role at the regional and global levels.
Cambodia has designated “Gender and Development in ASEAN” as the theme for ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting with Civil Society Organization Representatives and “Role of ASEAN Youth in ASEAN Community building” for the Meeting with Youth Representatives.
ASEAN Leaders are expected to adopt three outcome documents, namely: Phnom Penh Declaration on ASEAN: One Community, One Destiny; ASEAN Declaration on a Drug — Free ASEAN 2012; and ASEAN’s Concept Paper on Global Movement of the Moderates.
For further information, please contact the Press Division, Department of Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tel.02-6435170, Fax.02-6435169, E-mail: div0704@mfa.go.th