APEC Results

excerpts from the 2006 APEC Leaders' Declaration
Ha Noi, Viet Nam, November 18-19, 2006

1. We reaffirmed that support for the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) remains a top priority of APEC. . . We shared the APEC Business Advisory Council's (ABAC) views that while there are practical difficulties in negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific at this time, it would nonetheless be timely for APEC to seriously consider more effective avenues towards trade and investment liberalization in the Asia-Pacific region.

2. We condemned terrorist acts, which are posing serious threats world-wide.

3. We understood many other tasks remain to be fulfilled in order to build stronger societies and a more dynamic and harmonious community.

Words not found in the document: North Korea, Pyongyang, nuclear, tariff, subsidy.

And the obligatory picture in traditional costume:











Who doesn't look good in a pastel cheongsam?