Foreign relations of Brunei
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Brunei joined ASEAN on January 7, 1984--1 week after resuming full independence --and gives its ASEAN membership the highest priority in its foreign relations. Brunei joined the UN in September 1984. It also is a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Brunei hosted the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November 2000. In 2005 it attended the inaugural East Asia Summit.
Disputes - international: Possibly involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with the People's Republic of China, Malaysia, Philippines, Republic of China on Taiwan, and Vietnam; in 1984, Brunei established an exclusive fishing zone that encompasses Louisa Reef in the southern Spratly Islands, but has not publicly claimed the island
Brunei has a number of diplomatic missions abroad. Aside from relations with Malaysia and other ASEAN states, Brunei also has extensive relations with the Islamic and Arab world.
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