Another step would be to strengthen promising regional bodies such as the East Asian Summit and ASEAN Plus Three.
As for the Japan-China-Korea FTA talks, plans were to officially announce a start of negotiations at the November 18-20 East Asian Summit.
Until recently it had been making steady progress in establishing itself as the main forum for pan-Asian dialogue and discussion, hosting the East Asian Summit, for instance, among many other talking shops.
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In terms of the South China Sea and the East Asian Summit, again, I would leave that to our President and to our Secretary of State to discuss with the members there.
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The same day it was announced that Zhu would make an ASEAN tour starting Nov. 22 and represent China at the ASEAN-East Asian informal summit in Manila.
Engagement and nuclear proliferation were the themes of the day at the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) summit.
Every year, we have the ASEAN Summit plus the three East Asian giants -- China, Japan and Korea.
The Cambodia leg of the trip is mainly to attend the East Asia Summit, a sideline event being held after the 21st ASEAN Summit of Asian leaders, which opened in Phnom Penh today.
Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to attend the East Asia Summit, a gathering of 10 Southeast Asian nations and other regional powers, such as China, South Korea and Japan.
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Efforts to engage the generals gained momentum after the recent summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Bangkok.
In protest at his appointment, opposition rowdies have threatened to picket next month's summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
When the decision to hold such a gathering was first announced, at the annual summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Laos last month, no one seemed to know the answer.
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For weeks the military regime has delayed pronouncing a verdict in its trial, perhaps so as not to embarrass fellow members of the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), meeting for its annual summit this week in Thailand.
The ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which played host to the summit, likes to tout its own efforts to build a European-style single market of over 500m people.
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It forms the backdrop to the annual East Asia Summit, held this year in Thailand from April 10th, grouping the ten South-East Asian countries with not just their partners in China, Japan and South Korea but India, Australia and New Zealand as well.
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