Word: pacts
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...China could form the basis of an East Asian Community, modelled on ASEAN’s own plans for free trade and further integration. Prime Minister John Howard of Australia and Premier Hu Jintao of China have started negotiations as to what would be required of a free trade pact between the two countries. Australia has already inked a similar deal with Thailand. Asia could find itself as economically integrated as Europe without the politicized wrangling over common currencies and madcap attempts to establish governing bodies that sit above nationally elected governments...
...Long Delay United Airlines launched the U.S.'s first scheduled flight to Vietnam since 1975. The service, from San Francisco to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) grew out of a bilateral aviation pact agreed upon last year...
...only engage China or confront China, and certainly we have chosen to engage China." M.C. ABAD, ASEAN spokesman, following the signing of a free-trade pact with China at the asean summit in Vientiane, Laos...
...CHILE Talks on a free-trade pact...
...Stablity Pact EUROPEAN UNION The crisis over the incoming European Commission appeared resolved, as leaders in the European Parliament indicated they would endorse Commission President José Manuel Barroso's new lineup in a vote set for this week. Italy's Silvio Berlusconi nominated Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to replace Rocco Buttiglione, who had angered parliamentarians with his comments on gays and women. The Latvian government replaced its much-criticized nominee, Ingrida Udre, with diplomat Andris Piebalgs. Amid a minor reshuffle that saw Hungarian Laszlo Kovacs moved from energy to tax, Neelie Kroes - the embattled Dutch candidate for Competition Commissioner...