Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia
May 26, 2025

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. joined fellow Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders in signing the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ‘ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future’ as the first day of the 46th ASEAN Summit concluded at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia.

The document formalizes the adoption of the ASEAN Community Vision (ACV) 2045 and its Strategic Plans. According to an e-bulletin posted by the ASEAN 2025 Media Secretariat, the ACV 2045 is a new 20-year framework expected to continue striving toward ASEAN’s core values of peace, stability, prosperity and sustainable development.

In his brief message, ASEAN Summit Chair and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim emphasized that ASEAN integration must be genuinely people-centered, closing development gaps, raising standards of living, and investing in the human spirit and potential of all ASEAN peoples.

“This shared blueprint gives shape to that belief. It is a vision anchored in realism, animated by resolve and made possible by trust. As we turn this page, we renew our promise – to our peoples, to our region and to the generations yet to rise. Let us move forward – with clarity in our vision, steadiness in our purpose and unity in our will – to build the ASEAN we owe to the future generations,” said Prime Minister Ibrahim.

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