What is ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)?

What is ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)?

Birth	1993
Function	Dialogue platform between between the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN and its full dialogue partners. To provide diplomatic solutions to regional problems.

Working of ARF

1. Involves minimal institutionalization,
2. The chair of the ARF is rotated annually. The ARF Chairman's Statement, the organization's official declaration, is issued after each ARF meeting.
3. decision making by consensus,
4. use of both “first track” (official) and “second track” (nonofficial) diplomacy.