ASEAN - India Relations

Overview

As part of the Council's effort to provide the most comprehensive "business briefing" on ASEAN in the global economy, the Council is pleased to announce the creation of an ASEAN-India section to our website. This section, similar to our ASEAN + 3 page, will provide information and resources to track ASEAN's growing strategic engagement in the areas of trade, investment, and defense with India. This addition to our programming reflects our continued belief that understanding ASEAN well, requires understanding the evolution of ASEAN's links with Asia (ASEAN + 3, India and bilateral links with Japan).

US awareness about India's emergence as global competitor in information technology and one of Asia's leading growth engines has grown in recent years. However the Council believes that the level of understanding about the growing connections between India and ASEAN and their implications for the US business community in the region have yet to be fully developed.

The Council recognizes that the ASEAN-India relationship has the potential to be one of Asia's most strategic intra-regional dynamic relationships. Hence, as we continue to monitor ASEAN's engagement with the plus three countries (Japan, Korea and China), we will look to provide perspectives on how regional trends in ASEAN and developments in Asia are influenced by ASEAN's growing ties with India.

Latest Highlight

Photo courtesy of AFP

On June 29th, India and Singapore today took a major step forward in boosting their bilateral ties by signing a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA). The agreement can be downloaded in full at the URL: www.commerce.nic.in/ceca/toc.htmThe agreement is an integrated package liberalizing the trade in goods and services and an agreement on investments. It also has pacts for cooperation in customs, science and technology, education, e-commerce, intellectual property and media. The two sides signed a Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement, a double taxation avoidance agreement. A summary of the agreement can be found here.

Indian-ASEAN Summit Meetings

ASEAN-India Partnership for Peace, Progress and Shared Prosperity Agreement, 3rd ASEAN-India Summit, Nov 30, 2004
Emerging Asian Trends in India-ASEAN Relations
ASEAN-India ties entering a new phase
India-ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting, May 20-21, 2003, New Delhi
ASEAN-India: on the threshold of a new era in partnership
Joint Statement of the First ASEAN-India Summit: ASEAN-India Cooperation in the 21st Century First ASEAN-India Summit, Phnom Penh Cambodia, Nov 5, 2002.
ASEAN-India Dialogue, Jan 26 2002, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Joint Press Release The 1st Meeting of the ASEAN-India Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee, The 1st Meeting of the ASEAN-India Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee Bali, Indonesia, Jan 7-8, 1994

Indian-ASEAN Business and Economic Trends

Indian-ASEAN Science, Defense and Security Relations

ASEAN-India Strategic Engagement: Singapore-India Synergy
ASEAN-India Joint Declaration for Cooperation to Combat International Terrorism
Overview of India and ASEAN Scientific Cooperation
Indian and ASEAN Eminent Persons Lecture Series
India-ASEAN Cooperation in Information and Communication Technologies: Issues and Prospects

Indian and ASEAN Based Resources on Indian-ASEAN Ties

Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries
South Asia Analysis Group Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
India's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
India's Observer Research Foundation
Bridge-Singapore
ASEAN Secretariat and India
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Confederation of Indian Industry

India News/Media Sources

The Hindu Business Online
The Hindu
India's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
India Express News
Frontline Magazine