Asean Renews Community Declaration As Bloc Sets Course For Next 20 Years

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 Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim describes ‘Asean 2045: Our Shared Future’ as ‘anchored in realism and animated by resolve’.
The KL Declaration on the Asean Community Vision 2045 was signed by Southeast Asian leaders today.KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asian leaders today adopted the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the Asean Community Vision 2045, a roadmap that lays out its vision for the next two decades of integration in the face of growing global trade uncertainty and intensifying geopolitical tensions
Dubbed as “Asean 2045: Our Shared Future”, the declaration was signed during the 46th Asean Summit here today before being handed over to Asean secretary-general Kao Kim Hourn.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, as Asean chair, said international order today is increasingly unsettled, with geopolitical tensions, economic fragmentation, climate and technological disruption testing the bonds between nations.
“Yet these same technologies carry risks. Left unmanaged, they may deepen inequality, displace livelihoods, and outspace our rules.
“We must not only embrace innovation, we must learn to govern it together and with care,” he said in his address.
Describing the new vision as “a shared blueprint”, Anwar said it was “anchored in realism, animated by resolve, and made possible by trust”.
“And as we turn this page, we renew our promise – to our peoples, to our region, and to the generations yet to rise.
“Let us move forward with clarity in our vision, steadiness in our purpose, and unity in our will to build the Asean we want to hand to future generations.”
The original KL Declaration, signed in 2015 during Malaysia’s previous chairmanship, had laid the foundation for the Asean Community Vision 2025.
That has served as a key policy document guiding cooperation across the bloc’s three pillars: political-security, economic, and socio-cultural. - FMT

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