U.S. Agrees to Strategic Partnership with ASEAN Members
The U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to a new strategic partnership, said the White House in a Nov. 21 news release (here). The new partnership marks an elevation in the official relationship between ASEAN and the…
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U.S., said the White House (here). The partnership will be driven by a new ASEAN-U.S. Plan of Action 2016-2020, "which identified priorities and measures to be carried out by both sides to further enhance political-security, economic and sociocultural cooperation and realise the full potential of the ASEAN-United States partnership," said ASEAN (here). Among other things, ASEAN "welcomed the major progress of the ASEAN Single Window, which the United States has provided technical and financial support to since 2007." President Barack Obama, who lead the U.S. delegation to the U.S-ASEAN summit in Malaysia, discussed the U.S. relationship with ASEAN and various components of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, including intellectual property and political considerations, during a press conference (here).