APEC Year 2017, with the freshly-concluded APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city the highlight, was comprehensively successful, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh told the media on November 13.
President Tran Dai Quang met on November 11 with General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith, who was in Da Nang city to attend the APEC-ASEAN dialogue as part of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week.
Leaders of APEC and ASEAN welcomed Vietnam’s initiative to host the APEC AND ASEAN Leaders’ Informal Dialogue and considered it a vivid testament of the will and determination of their respective members in reinforcing a comprehensively integrated and inter-connected Asia-Pacific
Jayant Menon, lead economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), has highlighted the role of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in liberalising the world trade system.
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