ASEAN have already include European Union as full dialogue partner in ASEAN +10 mechanism: EU, Canada, United States, China, Russia, Australia, Japan, Korea, India and New Zealand. Pakistan also included but only as sectoral partner. And as we know, Turkey has also reiterated its strong desire to become a full dialogue partner of ASEAN recently.
Current ASEAN dialogue partners will certainly stay as we are now having a very good and constructive relation with all of them. ASEAN have many mechnism to deal and cooperate with its dialogue partners. Yes, we have expanded our full partnership with no less then 10 countries, yet the old mechnism is still there. We still have ASEAN +3 forum to deal exclusively with Japan, China and Korea. But we also have East Asia Summit to deal with ASEAN +8. We certainly won’t try fix something that isn’t broken.