ASEAN Charter

ASEAN Charter was signed on 20 November 2007 in Singapore. The signining event is at the annual Head of State and Government meeting. The copy is only one and saved in ASEAN Secretariat.
ASEAN Charter consist of: thirteen chapters and fivty five articles. The chapters are:
1. Purposes and principles
2. Legal personality
3. Memberships
4. Organs
5. Entities associated with ASEAN
6. Immunity and priviliges
7. Decision-making
8. Settlement and disputes
9. Budget and finance
10. Administration and procedures
11. Identity and symbols
12. External relations
13. General and final provisions
The charter was signed noting with satisfaction the significant achievements and expansion of ASEAN since its establishment in Bangkok through the promulgation of the ASEAN Declaration. Recalling the decisions to establish an ASEAN Charter in Vientiane Action Programme (VAP), the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the Establisment of the ASEAN Charter and Cebu Declaration on the Blueprint of the ASEAN Charter. Mindful the existance of mutual interests and interdependence of ASEAN which are bound by geography, common objectives, and shared destiny. Inspired by and united under One Vision, One Identity, and One Caring and Sharing Community. United by a common desire and collective will to live in a region of lasting peace, security, stability, sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and social progress, and to promote vital interests, ideals, and aspirations.
The signing also respected the fundamental importance of amity and cooperation, and the principles of sovereignity, equality, territorial integrity, non-interfence, consensus, and unity in diversity.