What is the aim of ASEAN?

The Member States aim to implement the ASEAN Vision 2020, which is a shared vision of nations living in peace, stability and prosperity, bonded together in partnership in development.

ASEAN Heads of State make up the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and are working towards an ASEAN single market, production base and economic region by 2015, where there is a free flow of goods, services, investment, and a freer flow of capital, equitable economic development as well as reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities.