The 33rd edition of the ASEAN Summit began on November 11, 2018 at Suntec Singapore Convention Centre, Singapore. The opening ceremony of the summit will take place on November 13, 2018. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, is the Chairman of this year’s Summit.

The Summit will continue till November 15, 2018 along with other related summits like East Asia Summit (EAS), Regional Comprehensive Economic Summit (RCEP) and ASEAN plus summits. The Summit will see the presence of leaders of partner countries such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

ASEAN Summit:

• The ASEAN Summit is a half-yearly conference to be organized by the ASEAN countries.
• In the conference, issues related to issues related to various issues such as economic, political, educational, security and culture of Southeast Asian countries are discussed.
• ASEAN is a group of ten southeast Asian countries. It is headquartered in Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
• ASEAN was established in Thailand in Bangkok in 1967 in Bangkok. ASEAN was established through the Bangkok declaration.
• Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia and Laos are the member countries of ASEAN.

India and ASEAN

• India became its regional negotiating partner in the year 1992 and the full negotiating partner country in
• The first India-ASEAN conference was held in Phnom Penh in Cambodia in
• In 2003, there was a comprehensive economic cooperation framework agreement between India and ASEAN.
• India-ASEAN commodity trade agreement was implemented on January 1,
• Trade and Investment Agreement between India-ASEAN was implemented on July 1,
• The bilateral trade between India and ASEAN in 2017 was 73-49 billion dollars.