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The APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) is a travel document for business travellers from APEC participating economies. It eliminates the need for visa and expedites border crossing, but has different eligibility criteria and validity periods depending on the economy.
The Australian states and the Commonwealth of Australia originally used the Imperial honours system, also known as the British honours system.The creation in 1975 of the Australian honours and awards system saw Australian recommendations for the Imperial awards decline, with the last awards being gazetted in 1989.
The ASEAN–Australia Development Cooperation Program (AADCP, or AADCP II) is a seven-year program jointly managed by the ASEAN Secretariat and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID—aimed at helping ASEAN establish a regional Economic Community by 2015.
The Order of Australia is an Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. [1] It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of then prime minister Gough Whitlam.
The ambassador of Australia to the Association of South East Asian Nations is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the delegation of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Australia has been in involved with ASEAN since 1974 ...
ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA) is a free trade area between ASEAN and ANZCERTA that was signed on 27 February 2009 and came into effect on 1 January 2010. Details of the AANZFTA agreement are available online. [27] ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), in effect as of 1 January 2010 [28]
The enlargement of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the process of expanding the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) through the accession of new member states. This process began with ASEAN's five original members, who founded the association through the signing of the Bangkok Declaration in 1967.
The ASEAN Charter is a constitutional document of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adopted in 2007 and effective in 2008. It aims to strengthen regional co-operation, integration and identity, and establish a human rights body and a dispute settlement mechanism.