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MEDIA ADVISORY
THE 11th ASEAN SUMMIT AND RELATED SUMMITS, AND THE FIRST EAST
ASIA SUMMIT,
KUALA LUMPUR 12 - 14 DECEMBER 2024
INTRODUCTION
Malaysia will host the 11th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits
from 12 � 14 December 2005. The ASEAN Summit is an annual meeting
held on a rotational basis by the country which holds the Chairmanship
of the ASEAN Standing Committee. The Related Summits that are
to be held around that time are the 9th ASEAN + 3 Summit, 9th
ASEAN + China Summit, 9th ASEAN + Japan Summit, 9th ASEAN +
Republic of Korea Summit and 4th ASEAN + India Summit. Malaysia
will also be hosting the first ASEAN + Russia Summit. The highlight
of these high-level meetings will be the staging of the First
East Asia Summit (EAS) on 14th December 2005.
The ASEAN Summit is geared towards strengthening ASEAN as a
regional institution that is competent in managing issues of
regional and international concern in an effective and productive
way. The meetings would provide opportunities to Leaders of
ASEAN member countries to evaluate the relations and cooperation
within the grouping as well as identifying the most appropriate
measures in defining the direction of ASEAN. While Summits of
ASEAN and its dialogue partners namely China, Japan, Republic
of Korea, India and Russia allows ASEAN to strengthen its cooperation
with these nations. The inaugural East Asia Summit is expected
to draw ASEAN to closer and substantial relations with China,
Japan, Republic of Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Malaysia will also host two other Summits, namely the Second
Brunei Indonesia Malaysia Philippines East ASEAN Growth Areas
(BIMP-EAGA) Summit and the First Indonesia Malaysia Thailand
Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) Summit on the sidelines of the 11th
ASEAN Summit . They were aimed at enhancing sub-regional cooperation.
While Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam will hold their Second
CLMV Summit.
To make preparations and lay the groundwork for these top-level
meetings, senior officials and Ministers from these countries
will meet in Kuala Lumpur from 6th to11th December 2005 at various
senior officials� and ministerial level meetings.ASEAN or the
Association of South East Asian Nation has a population of about
500 million, a total area of 4.5 million sq. km, a combined
gross domestic product of US$737 billion, and a total trade
of US$720 billion.
The private sector in ASEAN will also play an active role during
the busy summit period as Kuala Lumpur will stage the 2005 ASEAN
Business and Investment Summit from Dec 9 to 11. The Business
and Investment Summit, which is the third in the series, will
be sponsored by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council.
Besides complementing the 11th ASEAN Summit, its objectives
are to foster an exchange of views and perceptions between the
private sector and government within ASEAN and East Asia and
to facilitate commerce and trade between the communities in
this region.
It will also help explore intra- and inter- ASEAN/East Asia
business and investment opportunities and highlight the enormous
investment potentials of the ASEAN and East Asian regions.
Theme of the 11th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits is �One Vision,
One Identity, One Community�
Some of the other side events that will be held along side the
ASEAN Summit are:
- ASEAN Civil Society ForumASEAN Tourism Investment Forum
- ASEAN � INDIA Friendship Sky-Diving Jump
- Launching of Commemorative stamps and coins
- 3rd ASEAN Business and Investment Forum (ABIS)
- ASEAN-Russia Business Forum
- ASEAN - EAST ASIA Business Exhibition
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