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APEC Ministerial Meeting Joint Statement Released Webcast of Opening Comments by Co-Chair Available

17th APEC Ministerial Meeting Busan, Republic of Korea | 16 November 2005
The 17th APEC Ministerial Meeting has concluded with the release of a Joint Statement from Ministers. The statement is now available for download from the APEC Website. News Photographs of APEC Ministers are available for use by media organizations.
The statement covers the following topic areas:
  • Strengthening the Multilateral Trading System
  • Mid-term Stocktake of the Bogor Goals
  • Trade and Investment Liberalisation and Facilitation (TILF)
  • Anti-Corruption and Transparency Standards
  • Human Security
  • Economic and Technical Cooperation (ECOTECH)
  • Sharing Prosperity of the Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE)
  • Macroeconomic Issues
  • Structural Reform
  • Interaction with the Business Community
  • Cross Cultural Communication
  • Gender Integration
  • Youth
  • Non-Member Participation
  • APEC Reform
  • Sectoral Ministerial Meetings
  • APEC Secretariat
  • Official Observers
  • Future meetings
  • Approval of SOM Report
A Video and audio Webcast of the opening comments by the Co-Chair of the APEC Ministerial Meeting, H.E. Ban Ki-moon, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from Korea, is available at:
Audio
(WMA, 800 KB)
Dial-up Video
(WMV, 1.5 MB)
Broadband Video
(WMV, 12 MB)
The Ministerial Meeting will be followed by the 13th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting also in Busan, Korea, on November 18-19.

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