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Article: (LEAD) APEC ministers call for 'sound' FTAs to achieve Bogor goals.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- November 16, 2005
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By Byun Duk-kunBUSAN, Nov. 16 (Yonhap) -- Asia-Pacific Rim ministers on Wednesday endorsed a joint statement that renewed their commitment to establishing a free trade area in the region by 2020, while calling for a new round of reviews by 2009 of their efforts to achieve that goal.The joint statement came at the end of a two-day meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministers in this South Korean port city.It also called for the establishment by 2008 of a database of best models for bilateral and multilateral trade arrangements.
"Ministers agreed that APEC would develop by 2008 comprehensive model measures on as many commonly accepted ...