The 25th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting officially opened in Da Nang city on November 11 morning (Photo: VNA)Da Nang (VNA) – The 25th APEC Economic Leaders’Meeting officially opened in Da Nang city on November 11 morning under thechair of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang.
APEC leaders at the event include AustralianPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Canadian PMJustin Trudeau, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, General Secretary of theCommunist Party of China and President of China Xi Jinping, Chief Executive ofChina’s Hong Kong Carrie Lam, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Japanese PMShinzo Abe, President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae In, Malaysian PM NajibRazak, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern,Papua New Guinea PM Peter O’Neil, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski,Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Russian President Vladimir Putin, SingaporeanPM Lee Hsien Loong, head of Chinese Taipei’s delegation James Soong, Thai PMPrayut Chan-o-cha, and US President Donald Trump.
After the opening session, the APEC leaders heldclosed sessions.
The APEC Year 2017 under the theme “Creating NewDynamism, Fostering A Shared Future” reflects the APEC member economies’ commonconcern about seeking “new dynamism” for integration, connectivity and economicgrowth in the Asia-Pacific. It also shows APEC and Asia-Pacific’s long-termtarget of “fostering a shared future” which is peace, stability, developmentand prosperity.
[APEC 2017 Economic Leaders’ Meeting – important event in the week]
Founded in 1989, the 21-economy APEC is the AsiaPacific’s premier economic forum. Its primary goal is to support sustainableeconomic growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. The member economiesaccount for 39 percent of the world population, 57 percent of the world GDP and47 percent of the global trade, according to statistics in 2014.
Vietnam joined APEC in 1998 and is hosting APECevents this year after the first time in 2006.-VNA
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