[{"bbox": [83, 108, 1145, 162], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Thailand remains an influential player within ASEAN and can therefore play a significant role in implementing the recently concluded EU-ASEAN strategic partnership;"}, {"bbox": [83, 182, 1145, 237], "category": "List-item", "text": "* EU-Thailand engagement and cooperation will be instrumental to the proactive implementation of EU strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific."}, {"bbox": [83, 257, 1145, 339], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The EU and Thailand have strong economic ties and deeply rooted people-to-people relations add to the EU's interests, with 5 million EU tourists visiting Thailand each year (pre COVID-19) and a significant number residing permanently in the country;"}, {"bbox": [83, 360, 1145, 414], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Thailand shares the EU's strong political commitment to sustainable development; the Kingdom has proven to be an important partner in implementing the UN 2030 Agenda."}, {"bbox": [83, 461, 1145, 595], "category": "Text", "text": "The Cooperation Facility will be instrumental to the implementation of the **EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific**, and its focus on responding to emerging dynamics that are affecting regional stability. The Cooperation Facility will consist of a wide range of tools, initiatives and activities to achieve the objective of advancing EU strategic interests and priorities in Thailand, of enhancing the EU-Thailand partnership, and of raising Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy."}, {"bbox": [83, 620, 1145, 674], "category": "Text", "text": "These political objectives are also strongly linked to our ASEAN interests and cooperation. This Facility and the funding from the regional instruments, under the framework regional TEIs, will be mutually reinforcing."}, {"bbox": [83, 699, 1145, 781], "category": "Text", "text": "The Multi-Annual Indicative Programme for Thailand is limited to dialogues facility, technical assistance, and strategic communication and public diplomacy under the form of a Cooperation Facility to support EU strategic interests and priorities in Thailand."}, {"bbox": [83, 805, 1145, 1152], "category": "Text", "text": "The Cooperation Facility will support and facilitate political dialogue between Thailand and the European Union, including support to key policy dialogues linked to the **PCA** and the **FTA**, business cooperation, regulatory framework convergence, economic diplomacy and security issues as well as a continued **dialogue on the SDG agenda**, including sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, environmental issues and the fight against climate change. Strengthening the economic partnership between the European Union and Thailand, especially enhancing open, sustainable and assertive trade and investment will be essential. Good Governance, including anti-corruption and rule of law, and ensuring an inclusive and sustainable recovery are cross cutting issues, which will be emphasised in all aspects of the cooperation with a view to strengthen the role of Thailand in ASEAN and as a partner in Multi-lateral fora, as well as in security sectors such as cyber-security and maritime security. Furthermore, the Facility will support ongoing dialogues with civil society and the implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan III (GAP III). Finally, the Facility will cater for enhanced strategic communication and public diplomacy efforts of the EU in Thailand in key areas of interests, including contributing to the SDG agenda and external aspects of the **European Green Deal**."}, {"bbox": [83, 1176, 1145, 1363], "category": "Text", "text": "The Cooperation Facility consists of a wide range of flexible tools, which should allow for fast assistance and implementation of technical assistance, studies and peer to peer exchanges of experiences where needed. It will also deliver results and enable advocacy on some of the fundamental values of the EU, namely human rights, a strong civil society and gender equality. The facility will allow for an even more coordinated approach, reacting better and faster to emerging crises and challenges. Through strategic communications activities targeting general citizens, in particular those in the 18-35 years old cohort, it will enhance the public awareness, understanding and approval of the special relationship between the EU and Thailand, while promoting synergies with other EU policies."}, {"bbox": [83, 1388, 1145, 1522], "category": "Text", "text": "Initiatives envisaged under the ASEAN Green Team Europe Initiative would potentially complement activities undertaken under the Cooperation Facility. The commitment of the EU's contribution to the Team Europe Initiatives foreseen under this annual action plan will be complemented by other contributions from Team Europe partners. It is subject to the formal confirmation of each respective partners' meaningful contribution as early as possible. In the event that the TEIs and/or these contributions do not materialise the EU action may continue outside a TEI framework."}, {"bbox": [83, 1547, 1145, 1655], "category": "Text", "text": "The action supports the EU strategic interests and priorities in Thailand. The action is aligned with the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, the Paris Agreement, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy, including the Indo-Pacific Strategy and the EU-ASEAN Plan of Action 2018-2022, the new European Consensus on development, the external dimension of the European Green Deal including its"}, {"bbox": [1144, 1662, 1158, 1684], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "5"}]