Pacific Rim Nations Meet on Trade, Security
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Top ministers from 21 Pacific Rim nations convened high-level talks on free trade and global security Wednesday, while police battled university students protesting the summit and a weekend visit by President Bush.
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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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Southeast Asian economic ministers and counterparts from northern Asia powerhouses - Japan, China, and South Korea - agreed Saturday on steps toward free trade
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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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Leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations started a two-day summit in Vientiane on Monday, focussing on deepening economic integration to create a powerful bloc that could compete with the United States and Europe.
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Representatives of 21 Pacific Rim economies are in Santiago, Chile for preliminary meetings leading up to this weekend&#39;s meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Asia-Pacific leaders promised  on Sunday to try to revive world trade talks and fight  terrorism after a summit marred at the end by spats over the  security of President Bush.
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Pacific Rim trading nations said on Wednesday they should pool their influence to breathe new life into talks to free up world trade.
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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.
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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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SANTIAGO, Chile  - 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 on Thursday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Pacific Rim leaders pledged yesterday to shore up global security and push ahead with the World Trade Organization's negotiations on lowering global trade barriers.
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Top government ministers from 21 Pacific Rim nations convened high-level talks on free trade and global security Wednesday as police battled university students protesting the summit and a weekend visit by President Bush.
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Police tightened security Sunday as senior officials from Pacific Rim nations began meetings to prepare for a summit of regional leaders that will tackle trade and global warming.
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Top officials from 21 Pacific Rim economies issued a strong show of support for a global trade treaty and agreed on new counter terrorism measures aimed at protecting everything from air travel to shipping and food stocks.
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Southeast Asian leaders and their dialogue partners from China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand converge today at the opening of
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The 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in Chile this week has a thematic agenda that could detour into security and world peace issues, especially with newly reelected US President George W. Bush asserting his global leadership role.