Hopes for coordinated European action have faded after a weekend summit between the region's biggest economies--Germany, Britain, France and Italy--failed to result in a concrete plan for regionwide action.
The lengthy paragraphs on the troubled region in the summit's conclusions are an acknowledgement of the region's continued importance to stability in Europe.
This is why the summit of Asia Pacific region countries is of great importance, so that we can coordinate and integrate our ideas.
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James Godec, chairman and chief executive of the U.S.-Bahrain Business Council, says the idea is for the forum to become a Davos-like economic summit for the Gulf region.
While Internet safety advocates and tech professionals were meeting at the FOSI and Qitcom events in one part of the city, eight heads of state from the Arab region, government ministers and Arab tech industry leaders were participating in the Connect Arab Summit to talk about expanding technology opportunities in the region.
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Al-Bashir and Kiir agreed to reconvene another summit to discuss the final disposition of the disputed region.
In April, he is due to meet the region's leaders at the third Summit of the Americas, to be held in Quebec.
Euro-zone leaders expect to conclude the treaty governing the region's permanent bailout fund at a summit Monday.
This allows us to expand discussions not only on our bilateral relationship, which is strong, and the cooperation that we've seen on issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but it also allows us to discuss how we can best use the East Asia Summit to assure shared prosperity and shared security across the region.
"We never accept military intervention in Mali, because this will exacerbate conflict in the region, " he said at an Arab economic summit in Saudi Arabia.
Discussions at the summit also focused on at least three free trade pacts in the region.
The Partnership will build upon the existing energy initiatives in the region, including the ASEAN-United States Energy Cooperation Work Plan, the APEC Energy Working Group, the East Asia Summit Energy Ministers and other forums to expand practical cooperation across the region, promote greater energy connectivity and integration, and encourage collaborative work across these and other forums, including through joint capacity building efforts.
Much of the conversation at the summit will center on improving economic integration and addressing security challenges in the region.
Jaua said Chavez was making decisions about the upcoming summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, a coalition of the region's countries.
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As well as looking at the development of micro-credit schemes targeting the growing ranks of Latin America's unemployed, delegates at the Puebla summit will also discuss ways of more effectively targeting women as recipients of loans across the region.
Alongside this rapid reaction force, said a UN official, a broad political plan to bring stability to the region is set to be signed on the side-lines of the AU summit in Addis Ababa by the leaders of the DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Tanzania and South Africa.
Leaders of the 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere ended their fourth Summit of the Americas this weekend with no agreement to create a free trade zone for the region.
The treaty follows the lead of leaders from Asia-Pacific nations, who pledged at a summit in Brunei earlier this month to triple the number of people with Internet access in their region by 2005, and provide all people in the region with individual or community-based Web access by 2010.
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With several hundred politicians, diplomats and academics milling around one of the region's capitals, it is more like a big family gathering than an international summit.
While the summit has become more of a photo-op, India prefers to deal with the countries in the region bilaterally.
Fresh from hosting the inaugural Asia-Europe summit, the Thai prime minister is eager to be seen as a force for better ties across the region.
This Forum includes an intensive three-day work program allowing a group of about 100 students from all over the region to meet and discuss the central theme of the event, which follows the themes of the Summit.
Following Burma, at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, the President will address a broad set of issues of concern to the Asia-Pacific Region -- from maritime security and law enforcement to disaster response and humanitarian assistance, development, infectious disease, education, food security, and energy.
In this regard, the community that is built upon an Asia, an East Asia also, and also a framework now through the East Asia Summit framework, we have the responsibility to -- in one area, to ensure that the cooperation in the region, especially in the area of economic cooperation, can contribute significantly to the development of the global economy that will bring benefit for all humanity.
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