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  • 5/27/2025
Southeast Asian leaders sign 20-year Asean roadmap

Southeast Asian leaders signed on Monday, May 26, a landmark agreement that sets out a 20-year vision for regional integration for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).

The "Asean 2045: Our Shared Future" declaration, signed during the ongoing Asean summit in Kuala Lumpur, outlines a long-term roadmap aimed at fostering peace, prosperity, and unity across the region.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim described the agreement as a defining chapter in Asean’s journey.

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00:00Today, ASEAN marks a defining chapter in its journey of regional integration with the adoption
00:13of ASEAN 2045, our shared future. In 1967, our founding members pledged to bind themselves
00:24together in friendship and cooperation, and through joint effort and sacrifices, secure
00:31for their peoples and for posterity the blessings of peace, freedom, and prosperity. Today,
00:40we renew that solemn promise, not as a tip to the past, but as a living covenant with
00:48the future. The future we seek must rest on foundations of sustainability and inclusion.
00:57ASEAN's integration must be genuinely people-centered. That means closing development gaps, raising
01:05the standards of living, and investing in the human spirit and potential of all our citizens.
01:15This shared blueprint gives shape to that belief. It is a vision anchored in realism, animated
01:26by resolve, and made possible by trust.
01:33It is a vision
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02:29to your majesty and excellencies, we will now proceed with a group
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