as of 28 December 2018

NOTIONAL CALENDAR 2019

Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue

JANUARY January 1 January

New Year’s Day

4 January

Myanmar’s Independence Day

7 January Cambodia’s Victory Day

12 – 13 January 13th

ASEAN Trade Facilitation Joint

Consultative Committee (ATF-JCC) Bangkok,

Thailand

12 – 13 January

12th

ASEAN Coordinating Committee on

Electronic Commerce

Bangkok,

Thailand

12-13 January 4th

Intersessional ASEAN Caucus Meeting of

the Regional Comprehensive Economic

Partnership Trade Negotiating Committee

Bangkok,

Thailand

14 January Special Session on the Fourth Industrial

Revolution

Bangkok,

Thailand

15 January

9th

Meeting of the Committee of the Whole Bangkok,

Thailand

16 January 16th

CLMV Senior Economic Officials Meeting Bangkok,

Thailand

16 – 18 January

First Meeting of the Senior Economic Officials’ for the Fiftieth ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting (SEOM1/50)

Bangkok,

Thailand

17 – 18 January

ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat Chiang Mai,

Thailand

20-21 January 35th

Meeting of the High-Level Task Force on

ASEAN Economic Integration

Bangkok,

Thailand

18 – 19 January

35st Meeting of the High-Level Task Force on

ASEAN Economic Integration

Bangkok,

Thailand

22 – 23 January

ASEAN Finance + 3 Task Force Meeting

Bangkok,

Thailand

23 – 25 January ASEAN Regional Forum on Marine Debris

Management for Sustainable Fisheries and

Food Security in Southeast Asia

Nha Trang,

Viet Nam

28 – 31 January

20th

ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and

Marine Environment

Phuket,

Thailand

31 January 14

th ASEAN-IPR GC 1/2019

Jakarta,

Indonesia

January - June Workshop on Promoting Corporate Social

Responsibility on Social Welfare and

Development in ASEAN

TBC

January – July ASEAN E-Commerce Youth Expo TBC

FEBRUARY February 11 – 16 February - Working committee on Financial Services Bangkok,

as of 28 December 2018

Liberalization Meeting

- Working Committee on Financial Inclusion

Meeting

- Working Committee on Capital Market

Development Meeting

- Working Committee on Capital Account

Liberalisation

- Working Committee on Payment and

Settlement System

- Working Committee on ASEAN Banking

Integration Framework

- Steering Committee for Capacity Building

Initiatives to Support ASEAN Financial

Integration

- Senior Level Committee on ASEAN Financial

Integration

- ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Working Group Meeting

Thailand

12 February

Myanmar’s Union Day

19 February

Makha Bucha Day

19 – 20 February

ASEAN – Russia SOM Bali, Indonesia

23 February

Brunei Darussalam’s National Day

26 February – 1 March

- ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting

Working Group

- ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting

Plus Working Group

Phuket,

Thailand

February 12th

ASEAN Committee on the Implementation

of ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and

Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers

Thailand

MARCH March 5 March

Special ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Marine

Debris

Sukhothai Hotel,

Bangkok

7 – 8 March

ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting

Chiang Rai,

Thailand

12 – 15 March

or

19 – 22 March

(TBC)

- 26th

Senior Officials' Meeting for the ASEAN

Socio-Cultural Community

- 21st ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community

Council Meeting

Chiang Mai,

Thailand

18 – 20 March

Preparatory and SOM for the 20

th ASEAN

Cooperation on Civil Service Matters

Chiang Rai,

Thailand

21 March

Special ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Illegal

Wildlife Trade

Le Meridien Hotel,

Chiang Mai

as of 28 December 2018

27 March

Armed Forces Day (Myanmar)

27 – 28 March ASEAN – US Dialogue United States

29 March - 3rd

High-Level Brainstorming Dialogue on

Enhancing Complementarities between the

ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the UN

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Bangkok,

Thailand

March ASEAN Finance +3 Task Force Meeting

Bangkok,

Thailand

March ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs Forum 2019

Bangkok,

Thailand

March Project on Management of Environment and

Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities

Bangkok,

Thailand

March The 7th

ASEAN Drug Monitoring Network

Workshop TBC

APRIL April 1 April ASEAN High-Level Meeting on Human

Capital Development

Bangkok,

Thailand

2 – 5 April

- ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Bank Deputies

Meeting

- ASEAN Finance Deputies’ Meeting

- ASEAN Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting - ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting - ASEAN Finance Ministers’ Meeting

Retreat

- 23rd

ASEAN Finance Ministers’ Meeting

- ASEAN Central Bank Governors’ Meeting

- 5th ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central

Bank Governors’ Joint Meeting: AFMGM

Chiang Rai,

Thailand

2 – 5 April

- ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting

- ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting

Plus

Hua-Hin

Prachuap Kiri Khan,

Thailand

3 – 4 April

The 5th

High Level Regional Conference on

Enhancing Cooperation on Border

Management in the ASEAN Region

6 April

Chakri Memorial Day (Thailand)

11-12 April

(tbc)

ASEAN – India SOM India

13 – 15 April

Songkran Festival Day

23 – 24 Prep-SEOM for the 25th

ASEAN Economic

Ministers’ Retreat

Phuket,

Thailand

24 (Working Dinner) – 25 April

25th

ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting

Retreat

Phuket,

Thailand

as of 28 December 2018

25 – 26 April

- Meeting of the Committee of Permanent

Representatives to ASEAN

- ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting

- ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting

- Meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council

Working Group on Timor-Leste’s ASEAN

Membership Application

Phuket,

Thailand

26 SEOM-EU Consultation

17th

AEM-EU Trade Commissioner

Consultations

Phuket,

Thailand

30 April

The National Reunification Day

(Viet Nam)

April or June ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN

Peoples’ Forum

Bangkok,

Thailand

April or June Regional Workshop +3 TBC

Late April ASEAN Digital Agility Leaders’ Meeting

- ASEAN Digital Ministers Retreat

- ASEAN Eminent Persons’ Meeting

(Public & Private)

Phuket,

Thailand

MAY May 1 May Labour Day

2 – 3 May

(tbc)

ARF Defense Officials’ Dialogue

ARF Inter-sessional Support Group Meeting on

Confidence Building Measures and Preventive

Diplomacy

Republic of Korea

2 – 5 May

- ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers’ and Central

Bank Deputies’ Meeting

- ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers’ and Central

Bank Governors’ Meeting

Fiji

9-10 May 15th

ASEAN-IPR GC 2/2019

- 8th

ASEAN-IPR AB

- 6th

ASEAN-IPR GC AB

- Symposium on Non-Traditional Threat on

Human Security

Thailand

13 May

Royal Ploughing Ceremony Day (Thailand)

13 – 15 May

His Majesty the King of Cambodia, Norodom

Sihamoni’s Birthday

15 – 17 May

16th

ARF Security Policy Conference

Thailand

(TBC) 18 May Visakha Bucha Day (Thailand)

as of 28 December 2018

28 – 31 May

- ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) - ASEAN Plus Three SOM

- East Asia Summit SOM

- ASEAN Regional Forum SOM

- Working Group of the Executive Committee

of SEANWFZ

Bangkok,

Thailand

31 May

Armed Forces Day (Brunei Darussalam)

May - 15th

Senior Labour Officials’ Meeting - 17

th Senior Labour Officials’ Meeting Plus

Three Meeting

Thailand

May - ASEAN+3 Task Force Meeting

Fiji

May ASEAN International Conference

(7th ASEAN Government Network Assembly)

Bangkok,

Thailand

May or June The 16th

ASOMM Working Groups Meetings and Related Meeting

Thailand

(TBC) May Peer-to-Peer Technical Meeting

Bangkok,

Thailand

May or September Conference on ASEAN Volunteer Partnership

for Sustainable Development

Bangkok,

Thailand

May (TBC) Second Meeting of the Senior Economic

Officials’ for the Fiftieth ASEAN Economic

Ministers’ Meeting (SEOM2/50)

To be hosted by

another AMS

JUNE June

4 – 5 June

End of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)

6-7 June ASEAN Smart Cities Network Meeting TBC

12 June

The Philippines’s Independence Day

20 – 23 June

- Meeting of the Committee of Permanent

Representatives to ASEAN

- ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting

- ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting

- ASEAN Political-Security Community

Council Meeting

- ASEAN Economic Community Council

Meeting

- ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting

- ASEAN Coordinating Council Meeting

- ASEAN Leaders’ Interface with

Representatives of Various Stakeholders

- 34th

ASEAN Summit

Bangkok,

Thailand

as of 28 December 2018

24 – 28 June

37

th ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on

Energy and Related Meetings

Bangkok,

Thailand

June Joint Committee on Concept paper on ASEAN

Defence Establishment and Civil Society

Organisations Cooperation on Non-Traditional

Security Meeting

Prachuap KiriKhan,

Thailand

June or August Senior Officials’ Meeting of the 20th

ASEAN

Cooperation on Civil Service Matters

TBC

June or July 7th

Meeting of Governors/Mayors of ASEAN

Capitals 2019

TBC

JULY July 8 (Working Dinner) –

13 July

Third Meeting of the Senior Economic

Officials’ for the Fiftieth ASEAN Economic

Ministers’ Meeting (SEOM3/50)

Bangkok,

Thailand

11 July ASEAN-IPR GC Retreat Jakarta,

Indonesia

10 – 12 July

13th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Bangkok,

Thailand

13 (Working Dinner) – 14 July

36th

Meeting of the High-Level Task Force on

ASEAN Economic Integration

Bangkok,

Thailand

16 July

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam’s Birthday

16 July

Asarnha Bucha Day

27 July ASEAN-China Joint Working Group on the

Implementation of the Declaration on the

Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea

TBC

28 July

His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn

Bodindradebayavaranhkun’s Birthday and

Khao Phansa Day (Thailand)

29 July – 3 August

- ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) - 52

nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

- Post-Ministerial Conferences

- 20th

ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers

Meeting

- 9th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers

Meeting

- 26th

ASEAN Regional Forum

- Executive Committee of the Southeast Asia

Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Commission

(SEANWFZ EXCOM)

Bangkok,

Thailand

as of 28 December 2018

- Commission on the Southeast Asia Nuclear

Weapon Free Zone (SEANWFZ Commission) - AMM Interface with AICHR Representatives

July The 8th

ASEAN Drug Monitoring Network

Workshop

Thailand

(TBC) July 30

th ASEAN Senior Officials’ on the

Environment Meeting and Related Meetings

Bangkok,

Thailand

July or August 12th

ASEAN Senior Labour Officials’ Working

Group Meeting

Thailand

AUGUST August

9 August

Singapore’s National Day

12 August

Her Majesty Queen Sirikit’s Birthday (Thailand)

17 August

Indonesia’s Independence Day

22 – 23 August

3

rd Head of Civil Services Retreat Bangkok,

Thailand 26 – 28 August

ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee Bangkok,

Thailand

27 – 30 August

or

3 – 6 September

- 22nd

ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community

Council Meeting

- 27th

Senior Officials’ Meeting for the ASEAN

Socio-Cultural Community

Rayong/Chiang Rai,

Thailand

(TBC)

29 – 30 August (TBC)

ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting Retreat

(SOM Retreat) Sukhothai,

Thailand

31 August

Malaysia’s National Day

August - 25th

ASEAN Telecommunication Regulators

Council Meeting

- 2nd ASEAN Telecommunication Senior

Officials’ Meeting and ASEAN

Telecommunication Regulators Council

Leaders’ Retreat and Related Meetings

Bangkok,

Thailand

August Empowering Program for Self-Help Groups of

People with Disabilities

Bangkok,

Thailand

August Develop an Effective Mechanisms and

Programmes to Protect Migrant Children

Focusing Development, Education and Health

Services

Thailand

August 40th

General Assembly ASEAN

Inter-Parliamentary Assembly

Thailand

SEPTEMBER September 2 September Viet Nam’s National Day

as of 28 December 2018

2 – 6 September

ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting and

Related Meetings

Thailand

(TBC)

3 – 10 September

- 51th

ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting

(AEM) & Related Meetings

- 33rd

AEM-AFTA Council Meeting

- AEM – 22nd

AIA Council Meeting

Bangkok,

Thailand

16 September

Malaysia Day

17 – 20 September

- Meeting of the Committee of Permanent

Representatives to ASEAN

- ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) - ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting

- ASEAN Plus Three SOM

- East Asia Summit SOM

- Meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council

Working Group on Timor-Leste’s ASEAN

Membership Application

Bangkok,

Thailand

September 12th

ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour Bangkok,

Thailand

September

Informal ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

during the 74th

United Nations General

Assembly

New York,

USA

September ASEAN Smart Cities Network Meeting TBC

September - ASEAN Finance +3 Task Force Meeting China

September The 3rd

ASEAN-Japan Television Festival Bangkok,

Thailand

September or October Establishment ASEAN Training Centre for

Social Work and Social Welfare (ATCSW) Bangkok,

Thailand

OCTOBER October

10 October 16th

ASEAN-IPR GC Jakarta,

Indonesia

13 October

King Bhumibol Adulyadej Memorial Day

15 October

15st South East Asia Parties against Corruption: SEA-PAC

TBC

23 October

King Chulalongkorn Memorial Day

29 October

Coronation Day of His Majesty King Norodom

Sihamoni

October The Meeting on ASEAN Cooperation Work

Plan in the Golden Triangle

TBC

October Comparative Study Programme on Social

Protection Policy for Persons with Disabilities

in ASEAN

as of 28 December 2018

October or November - ASEAN Finance +3 Task Force Meeting Japan

October 13th

ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on

Transnational Crime

Thailand

October or November 10th

ASEAN Regional Tripartite Social

Dialogue Conference

Thailand

NOVEMBER November 31 October – 4 November

- Meeting of the Committee of Permanent

Representatives to ASEAN

- ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting

- ASEAN Political-Security Community

Council Meeting

- ASEAN Economic Community Council

Meeting

- ASEAN Coordinating Council Meeting

- 35th

ASEAN Summit and Related Summits

- Handing Over Ceremony of the ASEAN

Chairmanship to Viet Nam

Bangkok,

Thailand

2-3 November - ASEAN Business and Investment Summit

Bangkok,

Thailand

9 November

Cambodia’s National Day

16 – 19 November

- ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Retreat

- ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus Bangkok,

Thailand

18 – 21 November

Defense & Security 2019 Impact Arena

Muang Thong Thani

Nonthaburi

Thailand

November AMF/EAMF Vietnam

November or December

The 19

th ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on

Minerals and Related Meeting

Bangkok,

Thailand

The 12th

ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on

Minerals+3 (China, Japan, ROK) Consultations

Bangkok,

Thailand

The 7th

ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on

Minerals

Bangkok,

Thailand

November or December 8th

ASEAN Labour Inspection Conference Thailand

November or December Joint Meeting between ASEAN Senior

Officials’ on Youth and Senior Officials’ Meeting on Health Development

TBC

DECEMBER December 2 December

(Monday) Lao PDR’s National Day

5 December King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Birthday / National

as of 28 December 2018

(Thursday) Day / Father’s Day (Thailand) 10 December

(Tuesday) Constitution Day (Thailand)

25 December

(Wednesday) Christmas Day

31 December

(Tuesday) New Year’s Eve

Note: The ASEAN-ROK Commemorative Summit to be held in the Republic of Korea. (dates to be confirmed)

as of 28 December 2018

OTHER RELATED MEETINGS

Month Tentative Date Meeting Venue

February Network of ASEAN Defence and Security

Institutions

TBC

March ASEAN Military Operations Informal Meeting TBC

March ASEAN Military Intelligence Informal Meeting TBC

March ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Meeting TBC

March or April ASEAN High-Level Meeting on Human Capital

Development

April 3rd

Anniversary Celebration of ASEAN Centre of

Military Medicine

TBC

26 – 28 August Chiefs of Defense Conference 2019 Bangkok,

Thailand

August Prep ASEAN Defence Industry Collaboration TBC

September Table Top Exercise of Expert’s Working Group

on Counter-Terrorism

TBC

September ASEAN Peacekeeping Centres Network

TBC

September 11st

PACC XI and 43rd

PAMS XXXX III

TBC

November Field Training Exercise of Expert’s Working

Group on Counter-Terrorism

China

November ASEAN Defence Industry Collaboration TBC

December Handover Co-Chairman of EWG on CT TBC

December

Workshop on the Children’s Rights and Business

Principles on Child Protection Bangkok/etc.

(TBC) TBC

(back-to-back with

ASCC/SOCA)

Coordinating Conference on the ASEAN

Socio-Cultural Community

TBC

TBC 15th

ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organisation

Fact-Finding Committee to Combat the Drug

Menace

TBC

TBC ASEAN Students Exchange Programme

TBC

TBC ASEAN Education Network: Shaping

Opportunities towards a Learned Community

TBC

TBC ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on Education

and Related Meetings

TBC

TBC ASEAN Mayors Forum TBC

TBC ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on TBC

as of 28 December 2018

Human Rights

TBC ASEAN Network of Regulatory Bodies on

Atomic Energy

TBC