The ASEAN Community will officially take shape with three pillars in 2015: the Political-Security Community, the Economic Community and the Socio-Cultural Community. These pillars will be a milestone of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia. Importantly, Thailand, a one of ASEAN founders, has to prepare a strong foundation of three pillars for this regional grouping in term of institutions, rules, ideas, and so on.
In the regional level, ASEAN was proclaimed a Community through a Declaration signed by ASEAN Leaders at their 27th Summit in Kuala Lumpur on 22 November 2015. This is a historic development and important milestone in the evolvement of ASEAN since its founding in 1967. An ASEAN Community is the realization of the vision articulated eight years ago by ASEAN Leaders for the regional organization to achieve community status by 2015. The guiding document was the 'Roadmap for an ASEAN Community: 2009-2015' endorsed by ASEAN Leaders at their 14th ASEAN Summit in Cha-am, Thailand.