The regional behemoth provides a home to the ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta, the capital.

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The objective of the arrangement between IBM and the Asean Secretariat is to put in place a long-term program of collaboration in which IBM will serve as the technical adviser on information technology matters.

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We acknowledged the consistent and productive engagement among the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR), the U.S. Mission to ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, and are committed to work together to boost the capacity of ASEAN to address regional challenges.

WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting

Building on USAID technical assistance working with the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth (SOMY) and ASEAN Secretariat, the U.S. government will continue to support the launch of the AYVP in 2013.

WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting

Today, the Permanent Delegation continues to work even more closely with UNESCO, Permanent Delegations, Electoral Groups, Regional Groupings like the G 77 and China, the ASEAN UNESCO Committee, and as well other international organizations like the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat in Bangkok, Thailand in addressing some of the current, global challenges that are confronting the organization.

UNESCO: Background