Recognising the vital role that business plays in our economic relationship and the success of the inaugural U.S.-ASEAN BusinessSummit in Siem Reap in August 2012, we agreed to expand our commercial engagement by holding an annual U.S.-ASEAN BusinessSummit and holding a second ASEAN Economic Ministers Roadshow to the United States in 2013.
The dichotomy has marked recent meetings, from the World Bank-International Monetary Fund sessions in Washington to the ASEAN economic ministers discussions in Manila and the World Economic Forum East Asia summit, which convened leading figures in business, government and academe in Singapore.