The UK and ASEAN are working together to deliver the Plan of Action 2022 to 2026 to improve lives across the region, such as ensuring girls across southeast Asia can access quality education. That is why we are growing our long-term ties with dynamic, fast-growing markets across this region and showing our support for a strong, unified ASEAN – which is vital for the prosperity and stability of the Indo-Pacific. The security and economies of the UK and southeast Asia are more closely linked than ever before. Speaking ahead of the visit, the Foreign Secretary said: Later this month the UK will begin its formal accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bloc (CPTPP), further strengthening British trade and investment links in the region. Southeast Asia is on course to be equivalent to the fourth largest economy by 2030, with total trade in goods and services between the UK and ASEAN worth £46.5 billion to the end of 2022, helping deliver on the government’s priority of growing the economy. This will boost long-term UK trade and investment links in a region which includes some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. The Foreign Secretary will this week visit Jakarta (13 to 14 July), meeting ASEAN partners to advance cooperation on the shared priorities of security, stability and prosperity.ĭuring the visit, the Foreign Secretary will announce up to £25 million in funding to support ASEAN nations’ economic growth and reduce poverty, bringing UK expertise in trade, regulation and financial services to the region over the next 5 years.
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visit comes as part of a series of multilateral events this month, including the NATO conference and UN Security Council.
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he will set out the UK’s support for a strong and united ASEAN as central to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Foreign Secretary to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN) Foreign Ministerial meeting in Indonesia.
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