Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017

INDICATIVE ASEAN NOTIONAL CALENDAR 2018

Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue

January 1 January New Year’s Day
(Monday)

4 January Myanmar’s Independence Day

(Thursday)

9 – 12 January ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Singapore

(Tuesday – Friday) Meeting Working Group
(ADSOM WG) and ADSOM-Plus
WG

11 – 12 January 4th ASEAN-India Ministerial New Delhi, India

(Thursday – Friday) Meeting on Agriculture and
Forestry

12 January Special ASEAN Senior Officials’ Singapore

(Friday) Meeting (SOM) Retreat

16 – 17 January 3rd ASEAN Senior Officials Boracay,

(Tuesday – Meeting Responsible for Philippines
Wednesday) Information (SOMRI) Working
Group on Information, Media and
Training (WG-IMT)
17 – 18 January 5th ASEAN Coordinating Singapore
(Wednesday – Committee on E-Commerce
Thursday) (ACCEC)

18 – 19 January 10th ASEAN Trade Facilitation Singapore

(Thursday – Friday) Joint Consultative Committee
(ATF-JCC) Meeting

20 January ASEAN-European Union Free Singapore

(Saturday) Trade Agreement Joint Working
Group (AEUFTA-JWG)-ASEAN
Caucus

21 January 8th Committee of Whole (COW) Singapore

(Sunday)

22 – 24 January 1st Meeting of the Senior Singapore

(Monday – Economic Officials for the 49th
Wednesday) ASEAN Economic Ministers’
Meeting (SEOM 1/49) and related
meetings

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
22 – 26 January ASEAN Tourism Forum 2018 Chiang Mai,
(Monday – Friday) - 47th Meeting of ASEAN NTOs Thailand
- 19th ASEAN-India Tourism
Working Group
- 8th ASEAN-Russian
Federation Tourism
Consultation
- 32nd Meeting of ASEAN,
China, Japan and Korea
(ROK) NTOs
- 21st Meeting of ASEAN
Tourism Ministers
- 17th Meeting of ASEAN,
China, Japan, and Korea
(ROK) Tourism Ministers
- 1st Meeting of ASEAN-China
Tourism Ministers
- 8th Meeting of ASEAN-India
Tourism Ministers

23 – 25 January 17th Customs Procedures and Singapore

(Tuesday – Trade Facilitation Working Group
Thursday) (CPTFWG) Sub-Working Group
Meeting on the ASEAN Customs
Transit System (SWG-ACTS)
23 – 25 January ASEAN+3 Taskforce Meeting Singapore
(Tuesday – (Finance)
Thursday)

23 – 25 January 3rd ASEAN-Japan Consultation on Sapporo, Japan

(Tuesday - Regional Air Services Agreement
Thursday) (AJC RASA)

23 – 26 January 26th Meeting of the ASEAN Singapore

(Tuesday – Friday) Intergovernmental Commission on
Human Rights (AICHR)

24 – 25 January 33rd Meeting of the High-Level Singapore

(Wednesday- Task Force on ASEAN Economic
Thursday) Integration (HLTF – EI)

25 to 26 January ASEAN-India Commemorative New Delhi, India

(Thursday – Friday) Summit

30 January 6th Project Steering Committee Jakarta, Indonesia

(Tuesday) (PSC) Meeting of EU-ASEAN-
Migration and Border
Management Programme (EA-
MBMP) II

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
30 – 31 January Special Senior Officials’ Meeting Metro Manila,
(Tuesday - on Energy (SOME) and ASEAN Philippines
Wednesday) Centre for Energy (ACE)
Governing Council Meetings

30 January – 1 7th Working Group Meeting on Singapore

February (Tuesday – the Model ASEAN Extradition
Thursday) Treaty

31 January – 1 15th ASEAN Community ASEAN

February Statistical System Sub-Committee Secretariat,
(Wednesday – on Planning and Coordination Jakarta, Indonesia
Thursday) (SCPC)

February 4 – 6 February ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Singapore

(Sunday – Tuesday) Retreat

5 - 9 February ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Working Group Meetings:

- 57th Working Committee on

Financial Services
Liberalisation (WC-FSL)
Meeting
- 4th Working Committee on
ASEAN Banking Integration
Framework (WC-ABIF)
Meeting
- 35th Working Committee on
Capital Account Liberalisation
(WC-CAL) Meeting
- Working Committee on
Capital Market Development
(WC-CMD) Meeting
- 5th Working Committee on
Financial Inclusion (WC-
FINC) Meeting
- 17th Working Committee on
Payment and Settlement
Systems (WC-PSS) Meeting
- Workshop on Infrastructure
Project Structuring
- ASEAN Finance and Central
Bank Deputies’ Working
Group Meeting (AFCDM-
WG)

5 – 6 February ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Singapore

(Tuesday) Meeting (ADMM) Retreat

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
6 – 9 February ASEAN Online Content Producers Singapore
(Tuesday – Friday) Workshop
(TBC)

7 - 8 February ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Bangkok,

(Wednesday- Workshop on Sustainable Thailand
Thursday) Fisheries Management and Food
Security

20 – 23 February 5th Round of Negotiations on ASEAN

(Wednesday - ASEAN-EU Comprehensive Air Secretariat,
Friday) Transport Agreement (CATA) Jakarta, Indonesia

20 – 23 February 42nd Working Group on Technical Indonesia

(Tuesday – Friday) Matters for the ASEAN Single
Window (TWG)

23 February Brunei Darussalam’s National Day

(Friday)

27 February – 1 23rd Customs Enforcement and Malaysia

March Compliance Working Group
(Tuesday to (CECWG) Meeting
Thursday)
27 February – 1 35th ASEAN Maritime Transport Singapore
March Working Group Meeting
(Tuesday –
Thursday)

28 February – 2 24th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Singapore

March Retreat (AEM-R) and 16th AEM-
(Wednesday – EU Trade Commissioner
Friday) Consultations

1st week of February 2nd Joint Working Group for the Brussels,
(TBC) ASEAN-EU Free Trade Belgium
Agreement (FTA)

2 days End-February 23rd Meeting of the ASEAN-China Viet Nam

(TBC) Joint Working Group on the
Implementation of the Declaration
on the Conduct of Parties in the
South China Sea (JWG-DOC)

2 days February ASEAN Senior Officials Multi Jakarta, Indonesia

(TBC) Sector Workshop: Update on the
One ASEAN One Response
Declaration and AADMER
Review (TBC)

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
th
February/ March 9 East Asia Summit (EAS) High- Cambodia
(TBC) Level Seminar on Sustainable
Cities (HLS-ESC)

February – March 16th Meeting of the ASEAN ASEAN

(TBC) Commission on the Promotion and Secretariat,
Protection of the Rights of Women Jakarta, Indonesia
and Children (ACWC)

March 3 March (Saturday) 4th Regional Comprehensive Singapore

Economic Partnership (RCEP)
Intersessional Ministerial Meeting

5 – 6 March ASEAN+3 Taskforce Meeting Republic of

(Monday – Tuesday) (Finance) Korea

5 – 8 March 19th ASEAN Committee of Yangon,

(Monday – Culture and Information (COCI), Myanmar
Thursday) Sub-Committee of Information
(SCI) Meeting

6 to 8 March ASEAN Joint Consultative Singapore

(Tuesday – Meetings (JCM)
Thursday)

12 – 15 March 37th ASEAN Air Transport Malaysia

(Monday – Working Group (ATWG) and
Thursday) Related Meetings

13 – 15 March 24th Customs Procedures and Singapore

(Tuesday – Trade Facilitation Working Group
Thursday) (CPTFWG)
17 – 18 March ASEAN-Australia Special Summit Sydney, Australia
(Saturday - Sunday)

18 - 22 March 24th Meeting of Senior Officials Singapore

(Sunday - Thursday) Committee for the ASCC (SOCA)
and 19th Meeting of ASEAN
Socio-Cultural Community
(ASCC) Council

19 – 22 March 14th Meeting of the ASEAN Luang Prabang,

(Monday – Working Group on Convention on Lao PDR
Thursday) International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) and Wildlife
Enforcement

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
20 – 22 March th
20 Meeting of the ASEAN Single Cambodia
(Tuesday – Window Steering Committee
Thursday) (ASWSC)

22 – 29 March 2nd Meeting of the Senior Indonesia

(Thursday – Economic Officials for the 49th
Thursday) ASEAN Economic Ministers’
(TBC) Meeting (SEOM 2/49) and
Related Meetings

26 – 29 March 55th Meeting of the ASEAN Brunei

(Monday – Working Group on Intellectual
Thursday) Property Cooperation (AWGIPC)

27 – 29 March 22nd Customs Capacity Building Lao PDR

(Tuesday – Working Group (CCBWG)
Thursday)

March (TBC) 15th Working Group on Data ASEAN

Sharing and Dissemination of Secretariat,
Statistics (WGDSA) Jakarta, Indonesia
March (TBC) ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Lao PDR
Rice Reserve (APTERR) Council
Meeting

March (TBC) 1st ASEAN Telecommunications Myanmar

and Information Technology
Senior Officials’ Meeting
(TELSOM)-ASEAN
Telecommunications Regulators’
Council (ATRC) Leaders’ Retreat

March (TBC) 2nd ASEAN University Student Singapore

Council Union (AUSCU)
Conference

March (TBC) 5th Meeting of the Board of Thailand

Advisers (BAC) to the Committee
on Science and Technology
(COST) and BAC Retreat

March (TBC) 5th Meeting of the Expert Group on Singapore

Metrology (EGM)

March (TBC) 16th Annual Meeting of the Vientiane, Lao

ASEAN Forum on Coal (AFOC) PDR
and Related Meetings

March ASEAN Tourism Working Group Lao PDR

(TBC) Meetings

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
Q1 (TBC) ASEAN Committee on Migrant Singapore
Workers (ACMW) Workshop on
Educational Initiatives for Migrant
Workers

Q1 (TBC) 11th ASEAN Committee on the Singapore

Implementation of the ASEAN
Declaration on the Protection and
Promotion of the Rights of
Migrant Workers (ACMW)
Meeting

Q1 (TBC) 14th Meeting of the ACDM TBC

Working Group on Preparedness
and Response
Q1 (TBC) 4th Meeting of the ACDM TBC
Working Group on Knowledge
and Innovation Management
Q1/Q2 (TBC) 10th ASEAN Regional Forum TBC
(ARF) Inter-Sessional Meeting
(ISM) on Maritime Security

Q1/Q2 (TBC) 10th ASEAN Regional Forum TBC

(ARF) Inter-Sessional Meeting
(ISM) on Non-Proliferation and
Disarmament

Q1/Q2 (TBC) Inaugural ASEAN Regional TBC

Forum (ARF) Inter-Sessional
Meeting (ISM) on ICT Security

Q1/Q2 (TBC) ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) New Zealand

Inter-Sessional Support Group
Meeting on Confidence Building
Measures and Preventive
Diplomacy (ISG on CBMs and
PD)

Q1/Q2 (TBC) ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) TBC

Inter-Sessional Meeting (ISM) on
Counter-Terrorism and
Transnational Crime

Q1/Q2 (TBC) ASEAN-UN Secretariat-to- ASEAN

Secretariat Meeting Secretariat
Jakarta, Indonesia

Q1/Q2 (TBC) 30th ASEAN-Australia Forum Australia

Q1/Q2 (TBC) 25th ASEAN- New Zealand Indonesia

Dialogue

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
rd
Q1/Q2 (TBC) 33 ASEAN-Japan Forum Japan

Q1/Q2 (TBC) 2nd Project Steering Committee TBC

(PSC) Meeting on ASEAN Centre
for Biodiversity (ACB)-National
Biodiversity Authority of India
(NBA) Cooperation Project on
Biodiversity Conservation

Q1/Q2 (TBC) 19th Meeting of ASEAN Working Myanmar

Group on Coastal and Marine
Environment (AWGCME)

Q1/Q2 (TBC) 5th ASEAN Drug Monitoring Thailand

Network (ADMN) Operational
Workshop

Q1/Q2 (TBC) 10th Meeting of ASEAN Working Ho Chi Minh,

Group on Environmental Viet Nam (TBC)
Education (AWGEE)

Q1/Q2 (TBC) ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) TBC

Workshop on Preventive
Diplomacy: Skills and Tools
towards Effective Peacebuilding

3 – 6 April ASEAN Finance Ministers’ and Singapore

(Tuesday – Friday) Central Bank Governors’ and
Related Meetings:

- ASEAN Finance Deputies’

Meeting (AFDM)
April - ASEAN Central Bank
Deputies’ Meeting (ACDM)
- ASEAN Finance and Central
Bank Deputies’ Meeting
(AFCDM)
- ASEAN+3 Finance and
Central Bank Deputies’
Meeting (AFCDM+3)
- 22nd ASEAN Finance
Ministers’ Meeting (AFMM)
- 14th ASEAN Central Bank
Governors’ Meeting (ACGM)
- 4th ASEAN Finance Ministers’
and Central Bank Governors’
Meeting (AFMGM)

3 – 5 April 28th Meeting of the Coordinating Indonesia

(Tuesday – Friday) Committee on Customs (CCC)

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
3 – 5 April th
34 ASEAN Transport Facilitation Brunei
(Tuesday - Working Group (TFWG) Meeting Darussalam
Thursday)
4 – 5 April 6th ASEAN Medical Device Singapore
(Wednesday – Committee-Medical Devices
Thursday) Pharmaceutical Working Group
(AMDC-MDPWG) and related
meetings

5 – 6 April 32nd Working Group on Singapore

(Thursday – Friday) International Investment Statistics
(WGIIS) Meeting

17 – 20 April 22nd Annual Meeting of the Singapore

(Tuesday – Friday) ASEAN Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Sub Sector Network
(EE&C-SSN)
24 April 32nd ASEAN Committee on Malacca,
(Tuesday) (TBC) Disaster Management (ACDM) Malaysia
Meeting

25 – 28 April 32nd ASEAN Summit Singapore

(Wednesday – ASEAN Economic Community
Saturday) (AEC) Council Meeting

28 April – 8 May Regional Comprehensive Singapore

(Saturday –Tuesday) Economic Partnership – Trade
Negotiating Committee (RCEP-
TNC) and Related Meetings

April 50th Meeting of the Sub- Lao PDR

(TBC) Committee on Biotechnology
(SCB)

April 49th Meeting of the Sub- Malaysia

(TBC) Committee on Food Science and
Technology (SCFST)

April 52nd Meeting of the Sub- Indonesia

(TBC) Committee on Science and
Technology Infrastructure
Research and Development
(SCIRD)

April 40th Meeting of the Sub- Singapore

(TBC) Committee on Meteorology and
Geophysics (SCMG)

April 47th Meeting of the Sub- Thailand

(TBC) Committee on Microelectronics
and Information Technology
(SCMIT)
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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
April (TBC) Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Philippines
Marine Science and Technology
(SCMSAT)

April (TBC) 48th Meeting of the Sub- Brunei

Committee on Material Science Darussalam
and Technology (SCMST)

April (TBC) 48th Meeting of the Sub- Viet Nam

Committee on Sustainable Energy
Research (SCSER)

April (TBC) 29th Meeting of the Sub- Singapore

Committee on Space Technology
and Applications (SCOSA)

April (TBC) 16th Meeting of ASEAN Working Indonesia

Group on Environmentally
Sustainable Cities (AWGESC)

April (TBC) 3rd Meeting of ASEAN Working Malaysia

Group on Chemicals and Waste
(AWGCW)

April (TBC) ASEAN-China National Focal China

Point Meeting on Environmental
Cooperation

April (TBC) 3rd Meeting of the ASEAN Task Brunei

Force on Peatlands (ATFP) Darussalam

April (TBC) 2nd Meeting of Project Appraisal Metro Manila,

Group (PAG-2) to Board of Philippines
Advisers to Committee on Science (TBC)
and Technology (COST) (BAC)

April (TBC) 25th Annual Meeting of the Bangkok,

ASEAN Renewable Energy Sub- Thailand
Sector Network (RE-SSN) and
Related Meetings

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
April (TBC) ASEAN Minerals Cooperation Metro Manila,
Working Groups Meetings: Philippines

- Joint Working Groups

Meeting
- 15th WG on Trade, Industry
and Minerals
- 15th WG on Sustainable
Mineral Development
- 15th WG on Capacity Building
in Mineral
- 15th WG on Mineral
Information and Database
- 2nd AMCAP Mid-Term
Review

3 – 6 April 5th Intersessional Meeting of the Viet Nam

(Tuesday – Friday) ASEAN Senior Officials on Drug
Matters (ASOD) Working Group
on Law Enforcement (5th IWG on
LE)

April 26th Meeting of the ASEAN Malaysia

(TBC) Sectoral Working Group on
Livestock

April 32nd ASEAN Committee on Malaysia

(TBC) Disaster Management (ACDM)
Meeting

April ASEAN Regional Forum Training China

(TBC) on USAR Capacity Building

April/May 26th Meeting of the Prepared Malaysia

(TBC) Foodstuff Product Working Group
and Related Meetings

May 2 – 4 May - ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers’ Manila,

(Wednesday – and Central Bank Governors’ Philippines
Friday) (TBC) Meeting (AFMGM+3)

- ASEAN+3 Finance and

Central Bank Deputies’
Meeting (AFCDM+3)
- ASEAN+3 Taskforce Meeting

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
2 – 3 May th
15 ASEAN-Canada Dialogue Puerto Princesa,
(Wednesday – Palawan,
Thursday) Philippines
(TBC)

2 – 4 May ASEAN Telecommunications and Malaysia

(Wednesday – Information Technology Senior
Friday) Officials’ Meeting (TELSOM)-
ASEAN Telecommunications
Regulators’ Council (ATRC) Joint
Working Group (JWG) and
Related Meetings

6 – 12 May 18th Senior Officials Meeting on Malaysia

(TBC) Transnational Crime (SOMTC)
and Related Meetings

7 – 11 May 16th ASEAN Senior Officials Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Meeting Responsible for
Information (SOMRI), 14th
Conference of ASEAN Ministers
Responsible for Information
(AMRI) and Related Meetings

8 – 10 May 45th ASEAN Senior Transport Phuket, Thailand

(Tuesday – Officials Meeting (STOM)
Thursday)

8 – 10 May 27th Meeting of the ASEAN Malaysia

(Tuesday – Directors-General of Customs
Thursday)

8 – 11 May 74th Meeting of the Committee on Chiang Mai,

(Tuesday – Friday) Science and Technology (COST- Thailand
74) and COST Retreat

10 –11 May Workshop on Women in ASEAN Singapore

(Thursday-Friday) (ACWC)

12 – 17 May 27th Meeting of the ASEAN Jakarta, Indonesia

(Saturday - Intergovernmental Commission on
Thursday) Human Rights (AICHR)

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
15 – 18 May rd
43 Meeting of the Working Myanmar
(Monday – Group on Technical Matters for
Thursday) the ASEAN Single Window
(TWG)

21 - 26 May 90th ASEAN Coordinating Singapore

(Monday – Saturday) Committee on Services (CCS) and
Related Meetings

29 May - 1 June 6th Round of Negotiations on Brussels,

(Tuesday – Friday) ASEAN-EU Comprehensive Air Belgium
Transport Agreement (CATA)

Early May 18th Meeting of ASEAN Working Nay Pyi Taw,

Group on Water Resources Myanmar
Management (AWGWRM)

9 - 12 May 10th ASEAN Fisheries Thailand

(Wednesday – Consultative Forum and 26th
Saturday) Meeting of the ASEAN Sectoral
Working Group on Fisheries

May 16th ASEAN Food Security Bangkok,

(TBC) Information System (AFSIS) Thailand
Focal Point Meeting

May 9th Senior Officials Meeting on Medan, Indonesia

(TBC) Youth (SOMY IX)

May 8th ASEAN Plus Three Senior Medan, Indonesia

(TBC) Officials Meeting on Youth (8th
SOMY+3)

May 15th ASEAN-Canada Dialogue Philippines

(TBC)

May 31st ASEAN-US Dialogue Malaysia

(TBC)

May 28th Meeting of ASEAN Working Cambodia

(TBC) Group on Nature Conservation and
Biodiversity (AWGNCB)

6th ASEAN Heritage Park (AHP)

Committee Meeting

May Regional Conference on TBC

(TBC) Biodiversity and Ecotourism

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
th
May 20 Meeting of the Technical Thailand
(TBC) Working Group on Transboundary
Haze Pollution (TWG)

May 8th ASEAN Airport Interdiction Cambodia

(TBC) Task Force (AAITF)

May 74th Meeting of the Committee on Cambodia

(TBC) Science and Technology (COST-
74)

5th Meeting of the Board of

Advisers to COST (BAC-5);

8 Sub-Committees Meeting (SCB,

SCFST, SCIRD, SCMIT,
SCMSAT, SCMST, SCOSA, and
SCSER)

ASEAN COST – Dialogue Partner

Meetings
May 44th Annual Meeting of the Vientiane, Lao
(TBC) ASEAN Council on Petroleum PDR
(ASCOPE)

May 34th Meeting of the HAPUA Kuala Lumpur,

(TBC) Council and Associated Meetings: Malaysia

- 2nd Meeting of the ASEAN

Power Grid (APG)
- Special Task Force (STF)
- 22nd Meeting of the APG
Consultative Committee
(APGCC)
- 27th HAPUA Working
Committee
- 34th HAPUA Council

May SEANWFZ Working Group Singapore

(TBC) meeting

4 – 5 June 34th High Level Task Force on Singapore

(Monday – Tuesday) ASEAN Economic Integration
(HLTF– EI)

4 to 7 June ASEAN SOM, ASEAN Plus Singapore

June (Monday – Three (APT) SOM, East Asia
Thursday) Summit (EAS) SOM, and ASEAN
Regional Forum SOM

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
12 June Philippine’s Independence Day
(Tuesday)

18 - 21 June 1st AIPA Advisory Council on Singapore

(Monday – Dangerous Drugs (AIPACODD)
Thursday)

25 – 29 June 15th Meeting of the ASEAN Singapore

(TBC) Genetically Modified Food
Testing Network and Regional
Training Workshop on GMO
Quantitative Detection

26 – 28 June 17th Annual Meeting of the Singapore

(Tuesday – ASEAN Regional Energy Policy
Thursday) and Planning Sub Sector Network
(REPP-SSN)

June (TBC) 3rd Japan-ASEAN Science, Bangkok,

Technology and Innovation Thailand
Platform (JASTIP) Steering (TBC)
Committee Meeting

June (TBC) 9th ASEAN Energy Regulators' Cambodia

Network (AERN)

3 days in June (TBC) 24th Meeting of the ASEAN-China China

Joint Working Group on the
Implementation of the Declaration
on the Conduct of Parties in the
SCS (JWG-DOC) & 15th ASEAN-
China Senior Officials’ Meeting
on the Implementation of the DOC
(SOM-DOC)

Q2 22nd ASEAN-ROK Dialogue Republic of

(TBC) Korea

Q2 20th ASEAN-India Senior Viet Nam

(TBC) Officials’ Meeting

Q2 15th ASEAN-Russia Senior Russia

(TBC) Officials’ Meeting (ARSOM)

Q2 ASEAN-China Senior Officials’ Singapore

(TBC) Consultations (ACSOC)

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
th
1H 36 ASEAN Consultative Singapore
(TBC) Committee on Standard and
Quality (ACCSQ) Working Group
(WG1) on Standards and Mutual
Recognition Arrangement (MRA)

July 2 – 3 July 12th ASEAN Trade Facilitation- Singapore

(Monday – Tuesday) Joint Consultative Committee
(TBC) (ATF-JCC) Meeting

2 – 3 July 6th ASEAN Coordinating Singapore

(Monday – Tuesday) Committee on E-Commerce
(ACCEC)
4 – 8 July The 3rd Meeting of the Senior Singapore
(Wednesday – Economic Officials for the 49th
Sunday) meeting of the ASEAN Economic
Ministers (SEOM 3/49) and
Related Meetings

10 – 13 July ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Singapore

(Tuesday – Friday) Meeting (ADSOM) and ADSOM-
Plus

16 – 20 July 15th ASEAN Senior Officials Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Meeting on Rural Development
and Poverty Eradication
(SOMRDPE) and SOMRDPE+3,
Workshop

23 – 27 July 36th ASEAN Senior Officials Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Meeting on Energy (SOME) and
Associated Meetings

25 – 28 July 13th ASEAN Law Association Singapore

(Wednesday – General Assembly 2018
Saturday)

25 – 28 July 16th ASEAN-Japan STOM Japan

(Monday – Leaders Conference
Thursday)

28 July Birthday of King Maha

(Saturday) Vajiralongkorn of Thailand

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
30 July – 4 August 51 ASEAN Ministerial Meeting
st
Singapore
(Monday – Saturday) (AMM), Post-Ministerial
Conferences (PMCs), 19th ASEAN
Plus Three Foreign Ministers
Meeting (APTFMM), 8th East Asia
Summit Foreign Ministers
Meeting (EASFMM) and 25th
ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)

30 July – 3 August 28th Meeting of the ASEAN Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Intergovernmental Commission on
Human Rights (AICHR) &
ASEAN Ministerial Meeting’s
(AMM) Interface with AICHR

30 July – 1 August 16th Working Group on Data Singapore

(Monday – Sharing, Analysis, Dissemination
Wednesday) and Communication Statistics
(WGDSA)

(back-to-back with a Workshop on

ASEAN Statistical Indicators-
Consolidated Template
Enhancement on 30 July 2018)
Q2 – Q3 (tentatively 5th Meeting of the Working Group Brunei
1st week of July) on Statistics of International Trade Darussalam
(TBC) in Services (WGSITS) (tentative)

July - August (TBC) 2nd Working Group on System of Indonesia

National Account (WGSNA)
Meeting

Early July 9th Meeting of ASEAN Working Philippines

(TBC) Group on Climate Change
(AWGCC)

ASEAN Climate Change

Partnership Conference 2018

4th ASEAN-EU Dialogue on

Climate Change

July (TBC) 12th Meeting of the ASEAN-India TBC

Working Group on Science and
Technology (AIWGST)

6th Meeting of the Governing

Council of the ASEAN-India
Science and Technology
Development Fund (GC-AISTDF)

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
Q2 – Q3 st
1 Meeting of Working Group on TBC (Philippines
Sustainable Development Goals or ASEAN
Indicators (WGSDGI) Secretariat,
Jakarta,
Indonesia)
July (TBC) 3rd ASEAN Seaport Interdiction TBC
Task Force (ASITF)

July (TBC) 7th Project Steering Committee Jakarta, Indonesia

(PSC) Meeting of EU-ASEAN-
Migration and Border
Management Programme (EA-
MBMP) II

July (TBC) 6th ASEAN Drug Monitoring Thailand

Network (ADMN) Operational
Workshop

July (TBC) ASEAN Smart Cities Network Singapore

Meeting

July (TBC) 53rd Meeting of ASEAN Myanmar

Committee on Culture and
Information (ASEAN-COCI)

July (TBC) 5th ASEAN Senior Officials Viet Nam

Responsible for Information
(SOMRI) Working Group on
Content and Production (WG-CP)

July (TBC) Health Cluster 3 Meeting Singapore

July (TBC) 20th Expert Working Groups on the Myanmar

Harmonisation of Phytosanitary
Measures

25th ASEAN Sectoral Working

Group on Crops

July ASEAN Meetings of the National Brunei

(TBC) Tourism Organisations in Brunei Darussalam
Darussalam
Late July/October 4th Working Group on Philippines
(TBC) International Merchandise Trade
Statistics (WGIMTS) Meeting
back-to-back with 4th Regional
IMTS Workshop
July/August 39th ASEAN Senior Officials on Brunei
(TBC) Drug Matters (ASOD) Darussalam

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
August 2 – 3 August 16th
ASEAN Community TBC
(Thursday – Friday) Statistical System Sub-Committee
on Planning and Coordination
(SCPC)

9 August Singapore’s National Day

(Thursday)

17 August Indonesia’s Independence Day

(Friday)

16/17 August ASEAN Strategic Policy Dialogue Singapore

(Thursday/ Friday) on Disaster Management 2018

26 August – 2 50th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Singapore

September Meeting & Related Meetings
(Sunday – Sunday)

27 – 31 August 27th ASEAN Land Transport Thailand

(Monday - Friday) Working Group (LTWG), ASEAN
Highway Sub-Working Group and
ASEAN Multisector Road Safety
Special WG Meetings

31 August Malaysia’s National Day

(Friday)

August (TBC) 2nd ASEAN Telecommunications Singapore

and Information Technology
Senior Officials’ Meeting
(TELSOM)-ASEAN
Telecommunications Regulators’
Council (ATRC) Leaders’ Retreat,
24th ATRC and Related Meetings

August (TBC) 10th Meeting of the ASEAN-China Singapore

Joint Science and Technology
Committee (ACJSTC-10)
10th Meeting of the ASEAN COST
Plus Three (ACPT-10)

13 – 16 August 2017 36th ASEAN Maritime Transport Singapore

(Monday – Working Group Meeting
Thursday)
August/September Special Senior Officials’ Meeting Thailand
(TBC) (SOM)-39th ASEAN Ministers on
Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF)

Special SOM-17th AMAF Plus

Three

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Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
Q3/August ACMW Meeting on Plan of Action Singapore
(TBC) for the ASEAN Consensus on the
Protection and Promotion of the
Rights of Migrant Workers

2 September Viet Nam’s National Day

(Sunday)

3 – 7 September 39th ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Assembly (AIPA) General
Assembly

3 – 7 September 56th Meeting of the ASEAN Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Working Group on Intellectual
(TBC) Property Cooperation (AWGIPC)

3 – 7 September 8th ASEAN-Japan Heads of Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Intellectual Property Offices
September (TBC) Meeting

3 – 7 September 9th ASEAN-China Heads of Singapore

(Monday – Friday) Intellectual Property Offices
(TBC) Meeting

4 – 7 September ASEAN Connectivity Symposium Singapore

(Monday – Friday) and ASEAN Connectivity
(TBC) Coordinating Committee (ACCC)
and Related Meetings
11 – 14 September 7th Round of Negotiations on Singapore
(Tuesday - Friday) ASEAN-EU Comprehensive Air
Transport Agreement (CATA)

18 – 20 September 3rd ASEAN Ministerial

(Tuesday – Conference on Cybersecurity
Thursday) (AMCC)1
September Informal ASEAN Ministerial New York
(TBC) Meeting and Related Meetings in
New York

September 4th Project Steering Committee TBC

(TBC) (PSC) Meeting of Protection of
Biological Diversity in the
ASEAN Member States in
Cooperation with the ASEAN
Centre for Biodiversity
Programme (CARE4Biodiv)

20th Meeting of Governing Board

of ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

1
The 3rd AMCC will take place at the side-lines of the Singapore International Cyber Week 2018.
20
 Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
nd
September 2 ASEAN Heads of Major TBC
(TBC) Immigration Checkpoints Forum

September 22nd ASEAN Regional Forum Japan

(TBC) Heads of Defence
Universities/Colleges/Institutions
Meeting (HDUCIM)

September 6th ASEAN Plus Three Working Nay Pyi Taw,

(TBC) Group on Mobility of Higher Myanmar
Education and Ensuring Quality
Assurance of Higher Education

September / October 4th Meeting of ASEAN-ROK Joint Daejon, Republic

(TBC) Science and Technology of Korea (TBC)
Committee

September / October ASEAN+3 Taskforce Meeting Republic of

(TBC) (Finance) Korea

September/October 22nd ASEAN Director-General of Malaysia

(TBC) Immigration Departments and
Heads of Consular Affairs
Division of the Ministries of
Foreign Affairs Meeting (DGICM)
/ 12th DGICM + Australia
Consultation/ 12th ASEAN
Immigration Intelligence Forum
(AIIF)

September/October 3rd Ad Hoc Working Group on Malaysia

(TBC) ASEAN Common Visa (AHWG
on ACV)

September/October 17th Meeting of ASEAN Viet Nam

(TBC) Commission on the Promotion and
Protection of the Rights of Women
and Children (ACWC), 5th
ACWC-ACW Consultation
Meeting, 17th Meeting of the
ASEAN Committee on Women
(ACW), 3rd ASEAN Ministerial
Meeting on Women (AMMW)

21
 Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
th
September/October 13 ASEAN Government Philippines
(TBC) Organisations-Non Governmental
Organisations (GO-NGO) Forum
on Social Welfare and
th
Development, 14 ASEAN Senior
Officials Meeting on Social
Welfare and Development
(SOMSWD), 13th SOMSWD+3

September/October 12th ASEAN Immigration Malaysia

(TBC) Intelligence Forum (AIIF)

Q3 (TBC) 29th Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Singapore

Officials on the Environment
(ASOEN) and Related Meetings

September (TBC) 4th ASEAN Senior Officials Thailand

Meeting Responsible for
Information (SOMRI) Working
Group on ASEAN Digital
Broadcasting (WG-ADB)

Q3 (TBC) 15th Meeting of the ACDM TBC

Working Group on Preparedness
and Response
Q3 (TBC) 5th Meeting of the ACDM TBC
Working Group on Knowledge
and Innovation Management
Q3/Q4 (TBC) 25th Meeting of the ASEAN-China TBC
Joint Working Group on the
Implementation of the Declaration
on the Conduct of Parties in the
South China Sea

Q3/Q4 (TBC) 26th Meeting of the ASEAN-China TBC

Joint Working Group on the
Implementation of the Declaration
on the Conduct of Parties in the
South China Sea (JWG-DOC) and
the 16th ASEAN-China Senior
Officials’ Meeting on the
Implementation of the DOC

Q3/Q4 (TBC) 12th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Myanmar

on Transnational Crime
(AMMTC) and Related Meetings

October 30 September – 4 25th Senior Officials Committee Singapore

October for the ASCC (SOCA) and 20th
(Sunday – Thursday) ASEAN Socio-Cultural
Community (ASCC) Council

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 Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
9 – 11 October 8th
Session of the ASEAN Singapore
(Tuesday – Community Statistical System
Thursday) Committee (ACSS)

14 to 16 October ASEAN Joint Consultative Singapore

(Sunday – Tuesday) Meeting (JCM), ASEAN SOM,
ASEAN Plus Three (APT) SOM,
East Asia Summit (EAS)
18 – 20 October 12th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Singapore
(Thursday – Meeting (ADMM) and the 5th
Saturday) ADMM-Plus

23 – 25 October 3rd ASEAN Heads of Civil Service Singapore

(Tuesday – Retreat, 19th ASEAN Cooperation
Thursday) on Civil Service Matter (ACCSM)
SOM and Heads of Civil Service
Meeting, 4th ASEAN Plus Three
SOM and Heads of Civil Service
Meeting, Forum on Good
Governance

25 – 31 October 36th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Singapore

(Thursday – Meeting (AMEM) and Associated
Wednesday) Meetings2

October (TBC) Preparatory Senior Officials Hanoi, Viet Nam

Meeting (SOM)-40th ASEAN
Ministers on Agriculture and
Forestry (AMAF)
Preparatory SOM-18th AMAF+3
40th AMAF
18th AMAF+3

October (TBC) 33rd ASEAN Committee on Putrajaya,

Disaster Management (ACDM) Malaysia
and Related Meetings

6th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on

Disaster Management (AMMDM)

Inter-Ministerial Dialogue on
Disaster Management

October (TBC) ASEAN Tourism Working Group Malaysia

Meeting

2
The Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) will be held in conjunction with AMEM, and from
29 October to 2 November 2018.
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 Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
th
October (TBC) 14 Meeting of the Committee Myanmar
under the Conference of Parties to
the ASEAN Agreement on
Transboundary Haze Pollution
(COM-14)

14th Meeting of the Conference of

Parties to the ASEAN Agreement
on Transboundary Haze Pollution
(COP-14)

October (TBC) ASEAN-China Environmental Nanning, China

Cooperation Forum 2018

October (TBC) 19th ASEAN Telecommunications Indonesia

and Information Technology
Senior Officials’ Meeting
(TELSOM), 18th ASEAN
Telecommunications and
Information Technology Ministers
Meeting (TELMIN) and Related
Meetings

October / November ASEAN+3 Taskforce Meeting China

(TBC) (Finance)

16 – 19 October 6th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Viet Nam

(Tuesday – Friday) Drug Matters

October – November 22nd ASEAN-EU Ministerial Brussels

(TBC) Meeting

October – November 8th ASEAN Senior Officials Nay Pyi Taw,

(TBC) Meeting on Sports (SOMS-8) Myanmar
2nd ASEAN Plus Japan Senior
Officials Meeting on Sports ( 2nd
SOMS+Japan)

28 October – 1 13th ASEAN Senior Officials Myanmar

November Meeting on Education (SOM-ED),
9th SOM-ED+3 and 5th EAS SOM-
ED

10th ASEAN Education Ministers

Meeting (ASED), 4th ASED+3 and
4th East Asia Summit (EAS)
Education Ministers Meeting

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 Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
October – November 11th
ASEAN Plus Three Indonesia
(TBC) Leadership Programme on
Sustainable Consumption and
Production

October/November 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Singapore

(TBC) Labour

5 – 9 November 46th ASEAN Senior Transport Bangkok,

(Monday – Friday) Officials Meeting (STOM), 24th Thailand
ASEAN Transport Ministers
Meeting (ATM) and Related
Meetings

9 November Cambodia’s National Day

November (Friday)

11 – 15 November 33rd ASEAN Summit & Related Singapore

(Sunday – Thursday) Summits

ASEAN Economic Community

(AEC) Council Meeting
26 – 29 November 29th Meeting of the ASEAN Singapore
(Monday – Intergovernmental Commission on
Thursday) Human Rights (AICHR)

November (TBC) 12th Meeting of the ASEAN Plus TBC

Three Centre for Gifted in Science
(ACGS) Board of Directors
(BODs)

November (TBC) 4th Informal Dialogue between TBC

ASEAN Sub-Committee on Space
Technology and Applications
(SCOSA) and Executive
Committee on Asia-Pacific
Regional Space Agency Forum
(APRSAF)

25
 Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
th
November (TBC) 10 Informal ASEAN Ministerial Philippines
Meeting on Science and
Technology (IAMMST-10);

75th Meeting of the Committee on

Science and Technology (COST-
75);

6th Meeting of the Board of

Advisers to COST (BAC-6);

53rd Meeting of the Sub-

Committee on Science and
Technology Infrastructure and
Resource Development (SCIRD-
53);

8th Meeting of ASEAN-Japan

Cooperation Committee on
Science and Technology
(AJCCST-8);

8th ASEAN-EU Dialogue on

Science and Technology
(AEUDST-8);

8th ASEAN-US Consultation on

Science and Technology
(AUSCST-8)
November (TBC) 57th Meeting of the ASEAN TBC
Working Group on Intellectual
Property Cooperation (AWGIPC)
November Senior Executive Programme on Singapore
(TBC) Disaster Management for ASEAN

November 2nd ASEAN Regional Forum Singapore

(TBC) Training on USAR Capacity
Building
November / 2nd ASEAN Heads of Major TBC
December (TBC) Immigration Checkpoints Forum

November / ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Republic of

December (TBC) Bank Deputies’ Meeting Korea
(AFCDM+3)

December 2 December Lao PDR’s National Day

(Sunday)

2H (TBC) ASEAN Senior Officials on Indonesia

Culture and the Arts (SOMCA)

26
 Updated as of Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue
2H (TBC) ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Indonesia
Culture and Arts (AMCA)
Meeting

January 21 – 23 January Special Senior Officials Meeting Singapore

2019 (Monday – on Energy (SOME) and 21st
Wednesday) ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE)
Governing Council Meeting
TBC TBC 11th ASEAN-Japan Aviation Singapore
Security Experts’ Group Meeting

TBC 17th ASEAN Regional forum Republic of

(ARF) Inter-Sessional Meeting Korea
(ISM) on Disaster Relief

TBC ASEAN Regional Forum Defence New Zealand

Official’s Dialogue (ARF DOD)

TBC 12th ARF Experts and Eminent Viet Nam

Persons Meeting (ARF EEPs)

TBC ASEAN+1 Free Trade Agreement Singapore

(FTA) Review
TBC ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting Nay Pyi Taw,
on Sports (SOMS) Myanmar

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