Also noteworthy: India will become an ASEAN dialogue partner and ARF member this year.
Perhaps all the fuss over Pyongyang's diplomatic push is largely because little else happened at ARF.
As a result, no country wants to attend ARF meetings without at least trying to appear conciliatory.
Consultation and consensus certainly rules ARF, now in its second year and potentially ASEAN's most important spin-off.
Then came parleys with the grouping's dialogue partners as well as the security-oriented ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).
We noted our support for the efforts of ASEAN and the ARF in addressing cyber security matters.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
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From the ARF standpoint, just getting all the protagonists in Northeast Asia together for the first time was a triumph.
The Europeans also broke from the group's normal mode by issuing a dissenting memorandum on ARF's official condemnation of nuclear testing.
After all, the seven-year-old ARF has spent the past six years fretting impotently about Pyongyang's perceived military ability to destabilize the region.
At the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on security in Bangkok, the North's first appearance elicited audible sighs of relief and largely unrestrained chumminess.
Vietnam was inducted last week as its seventh member, and Cambodia was granted official observer status and admitted into ARF, boosting that body to 19.
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And on July 23, he will join the 21-member ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on security, which includes the U.S., Russia, China, Japan and the European Union.
We appreciated the substantial increase in high-level U.S. engagement in ASEAN-led political-security fora, including the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus), the EAS, and the Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
We welcomed the efforts this year of Indonesia, Republic of Korea and the United States to orient the ARF Inter-sessional Meeting on Maritime Security to include civil maritime law enforcement cooperation and capacity building.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
The United States also committed to join partner nations next year for the third ARF Disaster Relief Exercise co-hosted by Thailand and South Korea and the inaugural ASEAN-led, ADMM-Plus HADR and Military-Medicine Exercise hosted by Brunei.
That's what happened when Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun flew in to attend a July 27 meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the seven-year-old security panel in which Pyongyang would participate for the first time.
We resolved to deepen cooperation against international terrorism under the framework of the ASEAN-U.S. Joint Declaration for Cooperation to Combat International Terrorism, the ARF statements and its Work Plan on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes, and the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
We acknowledged the work of the ARF on cyber confidence building measures intended to build transparency and cooperation in an effort to reduce risk in cyberspace, and commended the United States and Vietnam for hosting a workshop this year on Proxy Actors in Cyberspace.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
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