Asia Pacific Unity

Asia-Pacific leaders call for unity

 

Asia-Pacific leaders called Saturday for unity in tackling a raft of economic challenges, as an annual summit began amid deep divisions over worsening territorial disputes and other rows. Summit host President Vladimir Putin opened the two-day gathering of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation bloc in the Far East Russian port of Vladivostok with a call for a renewed joint commitment to open up regional trade.

"By getting together and lifting barriers, we encourage dynamic development of the entire Asia-Pacific region and the global economy in general. It is important to build bridges, not walls," Putin told his fellow leaders. The 21 members of the grouping that accounts for nearly half of world trade meet every year to build goodwill in their effort to break down trade barriers, with the bloc's rules decided by consensus. 

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