What do you know about APEC?

Aug 12, 2009 by <<Lily Van der Woodsen> | Posted in Embassies & Consulates

It's...
- history
- success
- main influential countries

your opinion?
APEC is known as a general failure to create any real efforts in liberalising trade in the region... why is a failure in your opinion? too

It's stupid.

Joe S | Aug 12, 2009

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Building Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific Region

20.05.12

As President Obama and Secretary Clinton have underscored, much of the history of the 21st Century will be written in Asia. The United States is committed to building mature and effective partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region that can mobilize common action and settle disputes peacefully, so that we can work toward fostering rules and norms that help manage relations... It is my pleasure to be here with my colleagues, Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Koumans from the Department of Homeland Security and Assistant Administrator for Global Strategies John Halinski from the Transportation Security Administration. Secretary Clinton took her first overseas trip as Secretary of State to Asia in 2009 and has returned to the region ten times since. Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today on building secure partnerships in travel, commerce, and trade with the Asia-Pacific region.

Source: US Department of State (press release)

Bush Bloopers in Australia – OPEC or APEC?

by Oilism.com

US President George W. Bush, renowned for his mispronunciation of words during his speeches, once again made audiences laugh during his address to the business summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum in Australia. Within the first seconds of his speech, Bush referred to the gathering as the OPEC summit, the acronym for the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and then quickly rectified it to APEC, causing the gathering to erupt into laughter. President George W. Bush makes light of his bloopers during an APEC address. Throughout the rest of his speech he mispronounced several words, including Australia’s capital Canberra, Kuala Lumpur and Jemaah Islamiyah....

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Apec History - News


White House: Obama skipping APEC in Russia
Beaver County Times - May 20, 2012
White House press secretary Jay Carney made official Monday what had been assumed for months because the APEC meeting coincides with the Democratic National Convention in September. Both the United States and Russia deny there is any tit-for-tat

Vietnamese stocks drop, volume lower
Reuters - May 20, 2012
"If the government takes measures to lower interest rates in late May, the market could become active again and history in 2009 could repeat this year." Vu Thi Thu Trang, analyst, APEC Securities: "The falling streak this time is purely technical but

Apec Summit: Will Vladivostok be Russia's San Francisco?
Telegraph.co.uk - May 20, 2012
Apec Summit: Will Vladivostok be Russia's San Francisco? Vladivostok's skyline is being transformed for the 2012 Apec Summit in September. But residents fear the investment may not be enough to halt the Russian city's decline. In 1959, after visiting California, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev urged

Building Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific Region
US Department of State (press release) - May 20, 2012
As President Obama and Secretary Clinton have underscored, much of the history of the 21st Century will be written in Asia. Secretary Clinton took her first overseas trip as Secretary of State to Asia in 2009 and has returned to the region ten times

Warmer weather forces Alley Pond to change
TimesLedger - May 20, 2012
Warmer weather forces Alley Pond to change The city's 2011-12 winter was the second mildest in history, according to the NOAA, and educators at APEC said they noticed changes in the nature patterns they work in. According to Euler, patches of drought led to the shrinking of APEC ponds,