The ASEAN-US partnership has evolved significantly over five decades, progressing from dialogue partner status in 1977 to strategic partnership in 2015 and comprehensive strategic partnership in 2022, demonstrating how bilateral relationships can strengthen through sustained cooperation across multiple pillars of the ASEAN community.
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FAMILY PHOTO: Marco Rubio Joins ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Family Photo at Manila Summit | AC1Z
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You wear makeup today.
>> [clears throat] >> How about very good.
>> Good morning.
Good to see you again. Thank you.
Here, let's get our picture here real quick.
>> We can have you stand in front of >> I did that last time with her.
>> I know. This is just a picture. You've done a lot of these.
>> Huh?
That's good.
I'm good. How are you?
>> I'm good. Good.
>> Okay.
>> Good to see you.
>> All right, thank you, press.
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you. Officials are free to stay, but press needs to exit.
You were also an official? All right.
Thank you, press.
Thank you, guys.
>> I now invite everyone to perform the ASEAN handshake by placing your right hand over your left. Please hold the pose, retain your smile, and look toward the center cameras. Ready in 3, 2, and 1.
Excellent. Thank you, Your Royal [applause] Highnesses and Excellencies.
This concludes the family photo session.
Thank you for your kind cooperation.
We wish you a productive and a successful meeting.
>> Thank you.
>> Any news for these guys for you guys?
>> Thank you.
Thank you.
>> 4 minutes.
>> Hey Steve.
Um, I don't hear anything right now.
You don't hear anything while I'm here.
But what should I hear?
>> [music] >> Hello.
>> I think uh everybody is here.
So, may I call the meeting to order?
To begin, allow me to deliver my opening remarks.
Your Royal Highness, colleagues, at the outset, I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the Philippines as ASEAN Chair for the excellent arrangement for today's meeting.
I am also very pleased to welcome my co-chair, Secretary Rubio, and his delegation.
Let me also extend Cambodia's warmest congratulation to the United States on the 250th anniversary of its independence.
We wish the United States and its people continued peace, progress, and prosperity in the years ahead.
Over the past five decades, ASEAN-US relation have continued to grow from strength to strength, with our cooperation now covering all three pillars of the ASEAN community.
Since the United States become an ASEAN dialogue partner in 1977, our relationship has advanced to a strategic partnership in 2015 and a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2022.
These important milestones reflect how far our partnership has come, as well as our shared determination to build a stronger, safer, and more prosperous future.
This commitment is was reaffirmed by our leaders in a joint vision statement adopted last year.
Next year, we will celebrate the 50-year anniversary of as well as the fifth of our comprehensive strategic partnership.
These occasion offer us a timely opportunity not only to reflect on what we have achieved together so far, but also to set a clear and ambitious direction for the next chapter of our partnership.
At a time of profound geopolitical and geo-economic shifts, it political changes, and increasingly complex transnational challenges, close cooperation between ASEAN and the United States is more important than ever.
We should be reshaping our the partnership is strategic, resilient, and responsive to the evolving needs and aspirations of our region and peoples.
In this period, today's meeting give us a valuable opportunity to have an open and candid exchange on regional and global development, share our respective priorities,
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