Joint Statement and New Momentum

VHO - The ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Sports has been held 7 times, of which the 3rd Conference is considered to create new momentum for regional sports.

Vietnamese sports and regional sports have gained new momentum since the 3rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports.

The 3rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports (AMMS-3) held in the pivotal year before the establishment of the ASEAN Community in December 2015 emphasized and transformed the Vientiane Declaration into a specific program.

On August 13, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Ministers adopted the AMMS-3 Joint Statement, marking a step forward in setting out a specific priority structure for sports cooperation and a monitoring and evaluation mechanism. This is the time for ASEAN to accelerate its integration and prepare for the post-2015 vision.

The Joint Statement emphasized the pillars of sports for community health and life skills for youth; development of high-performance sports through training, science and technology; preservation of traditional sports and games; anti-doping, integrity and good governance. The Ministers assigned SOMS to complete the ASEAN Work Plan on Sports, creating a “backbone” for countries to synchronously implement, measure progress, and share good practices.

Kuala Lumpur is also where ASEAN begins to see more clearly the role of external partners, especially with Japan, to supplement resources, management knowledge and capacity development programs for coaches/teachers, women in sports and people with disabilities. On the other hand, AMMS encourages the use of sports as a socio -economic lever to promote the development of sports tourism, the event industry, and sports technology.

With AMMS-3, sports cooperation among ASEAN countries has taken a clearer shape and is a lever for partnership cooperation, creating a foundation for specific results in the 2017 and 2019 terms, before entering the post-pandemic adaptation phase.

The context of AMMS-3 in 2015 also showed the need for deeper integration of ASEAN sports into the regional and global ecosystem, from SEA Games to Asian Games, Olympics. AMMS-3 emphasized mobilizing dialogue partners and international organizations, encouraging research cooperation, coach exchanges, and using sports to strengthen “ASEAN identity” – an element reiterated in the Summit-level Chairman’s Statements of the same year.

It can be said that AMMS-3 marks a transition from “vision to action”, finalizing implementation priorities and linking sports with the process of forming the ASEAN Community, paving the way for the period of promoting social and cultural connectivity after 2015.

This will promote the development of regional sports and create a foundation for the next AMMS, including the 8th Conference that Vietnam will host from October 13-17 in Hanoi.

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