Asean economic ministers meet today
Afp, Singapore
Southeast Asian economic ministers will meet in Brunei on Thursday and Friday to discuss progress on efforts to establish an economic community by 2015, the Singapore government said Wednesday. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) ministers will also meet with European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari, it said. In a statement, Singapore's trade ministry said the ministers are expected to focus discussions on the progress of Asean efforts to establish a unified market by 2015. "In particular, ministers will discuss Asean's blueprint for realising an Asean Economic Community by 2015, a document to be endorsed at the Asean Summit in Singapore in November this year," it said. Apart from meeting among themselves, the Asean ministers will also meet as a group with Mandelson and Amari.
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