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AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER TO ATTEND ASEAN MEET.
JAKARTA, July 1 Asia Pulse - Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer is scheduled to visit Jakarta from June 30 to July 2 to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference (PMC), a press statement from the Australian embassy here said Wednesday.
The statement said Downer's talks with the ASEAN ministers in Jakarta will focus on the proposed summit and free trade agreement between ASEAN and Australia and New Zealand.
"Those proposals underline the deep and substantial nature of our relationships," he said in the statement.
According to Downer, this year's ASEAN meetings have an added significance for Australia as the country commemorates the 30th anniversary of its dialog partnership since the first formal talks in 1974 brought Australia and the ASEAN together.
Initially focused on development cooperation, he said the dialog has expanded to cover regional issues, such as cooperation in combating terrorism, people smuggling and people trafficking, the World Trade Organization, fight against diseases such as HIV/AIDS and SARS, and other topics of global significance.
"As the region's most important multilateral security forum, this year's ARF meeting is expected to endorse stronger measures to meet the critical challenge of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER TO ATTEND ASEAN MEET.