Special report: Premier Wen attends int'l meetings, visits
Singapore
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C, front)
attends the 8th meeting of leaders of China, Japan and South Korea in
Singapore Nov. 20, 2007. Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo and South
Korean President Roh Moo-hyun attended the meeting.(Xinhua
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SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The 11th ASEAN
(Association of Southeast Asian Nations) plus Three (China, Japan and South
Korea) summit opened in Singapore Tuesday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and leaders from the 10
ASEAN countries, as well as Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and South
Korean President Roh Moo-hyun were present at the meeting.
The ASEAN plus Three mechanism was established in the
late 1990s, when ASEAN countries decided to enhance cooperation with other major
economies of Asia.
The framework, initially focusing on economic
cooperation, have expanded in recent years to sectors of politics, security,
culture and other areas.
Leaders from China, Japan, South Korea and the 10
ASEAN countries meet annually to discuss cooperation and major international and
regional issues.
Founded in 1967, ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmer, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam.
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Leaders from the Southeast
Asian countries will meet their counterparts from East Asia during the upcoming
11th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) plus three (China, Japan and
South Korea) summit in Singapore Tuesday.
The following is an introduction to the ASEAN+3 as
well as the ASEAN+1 framework, which stands for ASEAN's respective cooperation
mechanism with China, Japan and South Korea. Full story
