Leaders of eight ASEAN member countries have arrived at Nanning,
capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, to
attend the a China-ASEAN Summit and an China-ASEAN Expo slated for
Monday and Tuesday.
They include Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Singaporean Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh,
Myanmar Prime Minister General Soe Win, Malaysian Prime Minister
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Philippine
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Thai Prime
Minister Surayud Chulanont will arrive on Monday.
The China-ASEAN summit, the first ever held in China, is aimed
at marking the 15th anniversary of China-ASEAN Dialogue
Relations.
Premier Wen Jiabao will hold bilateral meetings with the ASEAN
countries leaders respectively on the sidelines of the summit.
By 1991, China established diplomatic ties with all members of
ASEAN. It became ASEAN's all-around dialogue-partnership country in
1996. Currently, China and ASEAN are bent on cementing the
"strategic partnership oriented to peace and prosperity."
(Xinhua News Agency October 30, 2006)
