that ASEAN and the UN have held three Summits in 2000, 2005 and
2010, that the Summit outcome documents have laid a strong foundation for the strengthening of
the partnership between the two Organisations, and that the ASEAN-UN Ministerial Meeting
(AUMM) among the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Member States of ASEAN, the SecretaryGeneral
of the UN and the President of the General Assembly has become an annual event on the
margins of the UNGA, and WELCOMING in this regard the joint press statements of successive
AUMMs in the past, most recently on 27 September 2011;