APEC Leaders Vow to Scrap Trade Barriers
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Pacific Rim leaders pledged Sunday to shore up global security and push ahead with the World Trade Organization's negotiations on lowering global trade barriers.
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George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, and leaders from other 19 Asian - Pacific nations including China&#39;s Hu Jintao and Japan&#39;s Junichiro Koizumi are beggining to arrive in Santiago to attend to Chile&#39;s APEC summit on Saturday.
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Asia-Pacific powers, gearing up for a weekend summit, vowed to keep mobile missile launchers out of terrorist hands and to curb nuclear proliferation by &quot;axis of evil&quot; members North Korea and Iran.
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Australia&#39;s trade minister will urge Pacific rim leaders to drive forward efforts to free up global trade when he attends the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ministerial forum in Chile this week, he said in a statement Wednesday.
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The 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit ended here yesterday with leaders voicing strong support for World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations aimed at liberalizing trade and pledging to shore up global
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Asia-Pacific leaders called for a speedy  resolution to stalled global trade talks on Sunday, pledging  flexibility and ambition to get the outline of a deal by year&#39;s  end.
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Pacific Rim trading nations agreed they should work harder to control the production and trade of shoulder-launched missiles to keep them out of the wrong hands, foreign and trade ministers meeting in Chile said in a resolution
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Asia-Pacific leaders tackled security issues, including food safety, on the last day of their summit on Sunday after compromising on climate change a day earlier with a vague plan to reduce greenhouse emissions.
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Asia-Pacific leaders, closing their summit, are expected to call for a rapid conclusion to stalled global trade talks.
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Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Econo-mic Cooperation forum gather in Santiago, Chile today for their annual costume party. The two-day APEC summit has a broad agenda to push the groupingâs original aim of free trade in the region by 2020.
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HELSINKI, Finland - European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to keep cutting greenhouse gases after the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
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The leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries have reached an agreement with China that will lead to the creation of the world&#39;s largest free trade zone.
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Leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council agreed Tuesday to put aside their disagreement over the conclusion of bilateral trade accords with the United States, preferring
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SANTIAGO  - US Secretary of State Colin Powell and partners in the Asia-Pacific axis converge here Wednesday to thwart North Korea&#39;s nuclear arms ambitions, press the &quot;war on terror&quot; and rip away trade barriers.
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By Fiona Ortiz SANTIAGO, Chile  - Pacific Rim trading nationsagreed they should work harder to control the production andtrade of shoulder-launched missiles to keep them out of thewrong hands, foreign and trade ministers meeting in Chile saidin a resolution on Thursday.
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A top US official warned Thursday that global trade talks risk being stalled for years unless a breakthrough is made this year, as APEC ministers called on all sides to go back to the table.
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A meeting of top level officials from the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) began here Sunday to finalize agreements on trade, anti-corruption, sustainable development and security.