13p ASEAN Community - One Vision, One
Identity, One Community - Singles (101,000)
First Day Covers: Manila
ASEAN 48th Anniversary – One Vision, One Identity, One
Community
The Association of Southeast Asian
Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok,
Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok
Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Five other nations have since joined:
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam.
ASEAN COMMUNITY
The ASEAN Vision 2020, adopted by the
ASEAN Leaders on the 30th Anniversary of ASEAN, agreed on a shared
vision of ASEAN as a concert of Southeast Asian nations, outward
looking, living in peace, stability and prosperity, bonded together
in partnership in dynamic development and in a community of caring
societies.
At the 9th ASEAN Summit in 2003, the
ASEAN Leaders resolved that an ASEAN Community shall be established.
At the 12th ASEAN Summit in January
2007, the Leaders affirmed their strong commitment to accelerate the
establishment of an ASEAN Community by 2015 and signed the Cebu
Declaration on the Acceleration of the Establishment of an ASEAN
Community by 2015.
The ASEAN Community is comprised of
three pillars, namely the ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN
Economic Community and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. Each pillar
has its own Blueprint, and, together with the Initiative for ASEAN
Integration (IAI) Strategic Framework and IAI Work Plan Phase II
(2009-2015), they form the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community 2009-2015
Asean Community Joint Issue Stamp Design:
The entry from the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam recently won the first prize for both categories
in ASEAN Stamp Design Contest participated in by member countries.
The stamp winner was awarded US$ 1,000 while the First Day
Cover postmark winner received US$ 500. Their designs will be
produced as the stamp and postmark for all the ASEAN countries to
reflect the unity of the ASEAN Community according to its motto
"One Vision, One Identity,
One Community".