Cooperation (APEC)

attend the dialogue between APEC leaders and representatives of the APEC Business Advisory Council, and will meet leaders of relevant economies.

The most important element of China s charm offensive is its effort to improve relations with Japan, initiated at a meeting between Xi and Japan s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the recent APEC meeting in Beijing. The long awaited climate deal that Xi struck with Obama at another peripheral meeting at the same event is no small step, either.

More information is available on the Electronic Commerce Steering Group Website at http www.apec.org apec apec_groups som_special_task_groups electronic_commerce.html.

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing featured several important agreements as well. At the top of the list is the announcement of a US China bilateral climate deal, which helps to smooth the path toward the crucial United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP21) in Paris next year.

Available at http www.apec.org content apec apec_groups committees committee_on_trade government_procurement.html.

In this uncertain context, the APEC summit could shed much needed light on the intentions of Abe and Xi, thereby providing crucial insight into the trajectory of Sino Japanese relations and thus the future of East Asia.

A copy of the Stocktake is available online at http www.apec.org apec apec_groups som_special_task_groups electronic_commerce.html.

SEOUL Given that the 21 members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum account for some 54 of global GDP and about 44 of world trade, the agenda for this month s APEC summit should be drawing much global attention. Yet the only issue in which anyone seems interested is whether or not Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet on the sidelines, and, if they do, whether a substantive discussion to ease bilateral tensions will take place.

The business summit that met before the Bandung summit will be convened in tandem with future political summits.

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TOKYO Successful diplomatic summits are almost always pre cooked affairs, with every aspect of the meeting, from the initial handshakes to the final communiqué, minutely choreographed. But next month s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing looks like a high risk enterprise.

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He will deliver a keynote speech, attend informal leaders meetings and working lunches in two stages, and attend a dialogue between APEC leaders and ASEAN leaders,

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The Japanese government has made significant diplomatic efforts to orchestrate a meeting, with former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda visiting Beijing in July to try to ease tensions. According to some media reports, in order to secure China s agreement to participate in a meeting during the APEC summit, Abe even agreed to acknowledge that Japan s claim to the Senkaku Islands is disputed.

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See the report of New Zealand to APEC in 2002, available at http www.apec.org apec documents_reports government_procurement_experts_group 2002.html.

The conclusions of the thematic meeting had been presented at the preparatory committee of WSIS, and concrete proposals would be made to reflect them in the outcome of the Summit.

After the summit, China took over the rotating presidency.

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The regional summits will culminate in the Global Youth Leadership Summit to be held in New York at the end of August 2006.

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The Third Ministerial Conference would recommend a regional strategy and action plan to promote access to information, communication and space technology with a view to helping the countries of Asia and the Pacific to achieve the development goals set by major world summits, such as the Millennium Summit, the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the World Summit on the Information Society.

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Tunisia had initiated the World Summit on the Information Society and it was convinced that the Summit would constitute an international response to the digital divide.

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CampThree is at the base of Lhotse, which is the fourth highest mountain in the world, but it's dwarfed by Everest.

Information on the preparatory processes for the World Summit at the regional level has been disseminated widely through the WSIS preparations page on the ESCAP website.

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Informe de Seguimiento a la Cumbre del Milenio (Millennium Summit follow up report), Nicaragua, 2002.

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The WSIS process was moving in that direction, and UNCTAD was supporting the aspects of that process related to its mandate, in coordination with other international agencies.