Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations with ASEAN Act of 2025

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Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations with ASEAN Act of 2025

Introduced in the House of Representatives on June 10, 2025, H.R. 3865 aims to provide for the treatment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an international organization for purposes of the International Organizations Immunities Act.

Section 1: Short Title

This act may be cited as the ‘‘Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations with ASEAN Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘PARTNER with ASEAN Act of 2025’’.

Section 2: Extension of Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities

“Under such terms and conditions as the President shall determine, the President is authorized to extend the provisions of this title to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions, as it may be extended to a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such participation.”

Key Provisions:

Extends diplomatic privileges and immunities to ASEAN.
Implemented in accordance with the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.).
Terms and conditions set by the President.