On 12 November 2014 at 16.15-17.15 hrs., H.E. General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, attended the 6th ASEAN - United Nations Summit between ASEAN leaders and H.E. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, at the Myanmar International Convention Centre in Nay Pyi Taw, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

The Summit discussed the strategy to implement the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Partnership between ASEAN and the UN, which was adopted in 2011, in a more effective and concrete manner across three pillars, namely Political-Security, Economic, and Socio-Cultural cooperation. The Summit highlighted issues of counter-terrorism and ISIS/ISIL, pandemic diseases (Ebola), climate change, disaster relief, connectivity, poverty eradication and narrowing the development gap, human rights, as well as the establishment of ASEAN-UN Liaison Office in Jakarta.

The 6th ASEAN - UN Summit took note of the ASEAN-UN Work Plan 2015, which provided the policy direction of the Comprehensive Partnership by identifying specific cooperative activities to be undertaken with the objective of achieving tangible outcomes. These include, among others, cooperation under the ASEAN Peacekeeping Centre Network, support for the implementation of the ASEAN Master Plan on Connectivity, and ASEAN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and Children.  ASEAN would benefit from the UN’s expertise in various areas, and the UN could support ASEAN’s leading role in addressing challenges in the region. 

The Prime Minister welcomed the United Nations’ intention to enhance its existing cooperation with ASEAN. He voiced support for the ASEAN - UN Work Plan 2015, with emphasis on its goal of promoting concrete cooperation that would truly benefit the people. He highlighted four specific areas of cooperation, namely (1) agriculture and food security, (2) climate change and disaster relief, (3) connectivity, and (4) labor migration and trafficking in persons.  Additionally, he encouraged both ASEAN and the UN to synergize the UN Post-2015 Agenda and ASEAN Community’s Post-2015 Vision.