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ABC news report of the first APEC meeting in Canberra, November 1989, featuring delegates watching the Melbourne Cup. The initial inspiration for APEC came when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s series of post-ministerial conferences, launched in the mid-1980s, had demonstrated the feasibility and value of regular conferences among ministerial-level representatives of both ...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [c] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [d] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [13]
In March 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs formed the 2025 APEC Summit Host City Selection Committee and began the process of selecting the host city in earnest. The committee was chaired by Yoon Jin-sik, chairman of the Korea International Trade Association , and had 17 members including government officials and private members. [ 2 ]
The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, also known as APP, was an international, voluntary, public-private partnership among Australia, Canada, India, Japan, the People's Republic of China, South Korea, and the United States announced July 28, 2005 at an Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum meeting and launched on January 12, 2006, at the ...
The Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC) is a research center at the University of California, Berkeley.Created in 1996 in response to an initiative by U.S. President Bill Clinton, [1] the center undertakes research, disseminates information and facilitates discussion on issue related to APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) involving political, economic and business trends in the Asia-Pacific ...
APEC Peru 2024 was the first APEC meeting for New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who assumed the premiership on 27 November 2023; Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who assumed the premiership on 15 May 2024; Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who assumed the premiership on 16 August; and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who assumed the premiership on 1 ...
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation − APEC, an international economic trade bloc and political organization of Pacific Rim and Asia-Pacific countries.
APEC China 2001 was a series of economic and political meetings between the 21 member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum held in the People's Republic of China during 2001. Various meetings were held across the country, with leaders from all the member countries meeting 20–21 October 2001 in Shanghai .