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some DAES (Korea and Taiwan, and Hong Kong in some respects) seem, willing to establish more formal ties with the OECD or become Members (Korea) at some point in time and view the informal dialogue as a preparatory process towards this end;
in contrast, a less developed dialogue partner (Malaysia) is still questioning the objectives of the dialogue and is not ready, at this stage, to allow its government officials to participate in the informal dialogue; this attitude is not likely to go unnoticed in Thailand and, perhaps with a lesser impact, in Singapore.
IC. The Future of the Informal Dialogue
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To a large extent, the informal nature of the dialogue acts as a common I denominator of the interests of the parties presently involved. Based on
I topics which are generally agreed to be of value, the dialogue is likely to objects make steady progress in the years ahead. Other countries in East and
but I do South-East Asia, notably Indonesia and the Philippines, will perhaps express not theal a wish to establish contacts. So it seems likely that the dialogue with the We wal! DAES will gradually diversify, in order to take account of their wide range to. Net of aspirations and circumstances. Some could probably be associated more expand directly with the work of a few committees.
the dialogue.
II. FORM AND SCOPE OF ACTION
A. General Guidelines
8. i) The informal dialogue will be conducted by participants coming from Worked faily the public, business and academic sectors (the tripartite formula")
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in their personal capacity. The "tripartite formula" would be applied, as before, in a flexible manner, according to the specific needs of the various topics and parties involved.
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The work programme should not represent too heavy a burden for the scarce, amply solicited human resources of the DAES. Against this background, the appropriate sequencing of activities becomes a necessary condition for the success of the next phase of the dialogue.
The participation of all the DAES in the activities described below is expected and should be sought by the Secretariat. However, given that the DAEs differ considerably in size. level of development, and their degree of openness to trade and investment, future work would. not necessarily require the participation of all six DAEs in each and every activity.
Given the similarities in the role played by markets in these economies and in those of the OECD area, the dialogue with the DAES could be drawn closer through informal modalities to the structure of the specialised bodies of the Organisation.
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Finally, in exploring avenues for future work, it will be important to bear in mind work done by other international and regional organisations and conferences, notably the process of Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) and the Pacific Economic Co-operation Conference (PECC).
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