Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, has begun his week-long trip to Southeast Asia to strengthen defense and security ties within the region. From February 8-16, Assistant Secretary Shapiro will be travelling to the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Assistant Secretary Shapiro’s agenda is as follows: February 9-11, Manila, Philippines – [...]
On June 29, 2011, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened to consider the nomination of Derek Mitchell to be US Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma with Ambassadorial rank. This hearing started the Senate confirmation process to fill the Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma position, which the US Congress established with [...]
Testimony: Piercing Burma’s Veil of Secrecy: The Truth Behind the Sham Election and the Difficult Road Ahead On June 22, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize winner in 1991 “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights” in Burma, testified before the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. Her testimony was delivered via [...]
US Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton called ASEAN a “fulcrum for the region’s emerging regional architecture” and declared US intentions to “sustain and strengthen America’s leadership in the Asia-Pacific region” in a speech co-hosted by the East-West Center on October 28 in Hawaii. Full video of the speech is available. One main theme of [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed leaders of the ASEAN countries to the first U.S.-ASEAN Leaders Meeting to be held in the United States, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York City, on Friday, September 24. In his opening remarks, Obama praised ASEAN’s leadership in Asia and reiterated the grouping’s [...]
Senators Kerry And Webb Support Strong U.S. Engagement With Southeast Asia Washington, D.C.-–Corresponding with the second ASEAN-United States summit in New York City, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Webb (D-VA), issued the following statements announcing the Senate’s unanimous passage of a resolution supporting recent [...]
Calling the project, “simple, readable, yet impressive,” Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN, launched the ASEAN Matters for America project with Dr Satu Limaye, Director of the East-West Center in Washington, on Thursday, June 10, 2010, at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta. The project is also featured prominently on the Secretariat’s website. Dr. Surin was pleased [...]
On Monday, June 7, the ASEAN Matters for America/ America Matters for ASEAN project was formally launched in Southeast at the headquarters of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore. The project is a joint collaboration between the East-West Center in Washington and the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) at ISEAS. The East-West Center [...]
The ASEAN Matters for America / America Matters for ASEAN project was successfully launched on Friday, April 2. Making remarks at the launch were: Mr. Keith Luse, senior professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ambassador Scot Marciel, deputy assistant secretary for Southeast Asia and ambassador for ASEAN affairs, U.S. Department of [...]
Ambassador Scot Marciel will be keynote speaker for the Launch Event “Why ASEAN Matters for America.” Marciel is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. In July 2009, the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations [...]
