UK bolsters ASEAN's growth and stability through strategic programmes and partnerships

The UK became a dialogue partner with ASEAN just four years ago and we reached the first new dialogue partner for 25 years.

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As it's been a long time since ASEAN accepted a new dialogue partner, we were absolutely delighted. We're committed to working and partnering across all of ASEAN's priorities, but particularly those where there's a real overlap between what ASEAN is trying to do and where the UK might have expertise, or the other way around, where the UK has a particular interest in learning from what's going on in ASEAN and from ASEAN's expertise.

We have partnered with ASEAN to design and devise a number of programmes, which we're rolling out in support of, not just ASEAN's priorities, but also the commitments that we've made in the plan of action that we've reached with ASEAN.