So the President is going to attend the ASEAN meeting and the EAS meeting.
He is keen on developing the ASEAN market, particularly Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The leaders also pledged to move faster to launch the ASEAN Investment Area (AIA).
The ASEAN Ten, quite simply, will not be the same as the ASEAN Six.
"Myanmar is a part of the ASEAN family, " Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon told Asiaweek.
The regional behemoth provides a home to the ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta, the capital.
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For sometime though the Asean countries have been split on the advisability of closer ties with India.
This is why the ASEAN states are keeping equally distant from the great powers in the region.
We tasked the relevant Ministers to review and consider the recommendations of the ASEAN-U.S. EPG as appropriate.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
The July missile tests were scarcely mentioned during the ASEAN Regional Forum in Brunei earlier this month.
In 1998, during the ASEAN summit in Hanoi, I noticed Vietnam had become the third largest rice exporter.
They are meeting on the sidelines of the Asean forum in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, amid regional tension.
Every year, we have the ASEAN Summit plus the three East Asian giants -- China, Japan and Korea.
Washington also needs to reassure smaller nations, especially the ASEAN members, of its continued commitment to multilateralism in trade.
Additionally, from February 26th to the 28th, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers are discussing the support their countries can give.
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Meanwhile, the old guard should accelerate the induction of senior officials from the new countries into the ASEAN culture.
We highlighted continued efforts by the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC) to combat trafficking in persons (TIP).
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
We have emerging partnerships with a whole host of nations -- for instance, he'll be doing the ASEAN meeting.
For all their clubbishness and golf-playing, the ASEAN leaders are strong-willed folk running nations that have not always been friends.
Furthermore, we agree that Thailand is a strategic location and a hub for ASEAN connectivities and the ASEAN economic communities, AEC.
By contrast, the ASEAN parleys, which now stretch fully a week, have become notable for the sheer breadth of their agendas.
American diplomats claim this is reward for Mr Obama's economic and diplomatic investment in the ASEAN region, America's fourth-largest overseas market.
The ASEAN free-trade agreement itself is only legal under WTO rules because its members are developing countries entitled to special treatment.
In India, Ford dealerships will go to 315 from 92, and in the ASEAN region dealerships will grow to 280 from 143.
And ministers meet at the ASEAN Regional Forum and the Shangri-La dialogue.
We welcomed efforts to elevate the ASEAN-U.S. partnership to a strategic level.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
America's exports to the ASEAN economies may be small in overall terms.
We took note of the ASEAN-China Joint Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the DOC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 19 November 2012.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
At the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on security in Bangkok, the North's first appearance elicited audible sighs of relief and largely unrestrained chumminess.
The ASEAN Leaders briefed the President on their plan to create an ASEAN Economic Community with a single market and production base by 2015.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Working Lunch with ASEAN leaders
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