JAKARTA, May 7 -- With only a handful of action lines left to be implemented, progress of work for the ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025 is on the right track. The Blueprint's Mid-Term Review conducted in 2020 likewise reveals that two in every ten activities evaluated have high impact, more than 80% of them are expected to be sustained, and four in every ten are seen to have irreversible or long-lasting effects.

This was highlighted during the 13th Coordinating Conference for the ASEAN Political-Security Community (ASCCO). Held yesterday via videoconference, ASCCO was chaired by the Deputy Security-General for Political-Security Community Robert Matheus Michael Tene.

Also presented during the conference is the Strategic a...