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Extract from APEC II statement
FUTURE PARTICIPATION IN APEC
26 Recognising that APEC is a non-formal forum for consultations among high-level representatives of economies with strong or increasing economic linkages in the Asia Pacific region, Ministers agreed to keep under review in subsequent meetings the question of additional participation
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Ministers, acknowledged the particularly significant role in the Asia Pacific region of the three economies of the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, both in terms of present economic activity and their importance for the region's future prosperity. They reaffirmed their view, expressed in Canberra in 1989, that it was desirable for these three economies to participate in future APEC consultative meetings.
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Ministers agreed that consultations should proceed with the three economies, with a view to reaching arrangements agreeable to those thres and to the current members of APEC for all three to participate in APEC at the same time, either at the Seoul meeting or as soon as possible thereafter. The results of these consultations will be conveyed to Ministars.
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