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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo links arms with her fellow leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the leaders of Australia, China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand after the formal signing of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the First East Asia Summit Wednesday (Dec. 14) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia. The East Asia Summit is a forum for dialogue on broad strategic issues of relevance to East Asia as well as other regional and global issues. With the President in photo are (from left) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of Malaysia, Premier Wen Jiabao of the People’s Republic of China, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand, Prime Minister Soe Win of the Union of Myanmar, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand. (Exequiel Supera-OPS-NIB Photo) |
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