Leaders of the ten member countries of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are scheduled to arrive in Nanning,
capital of?southwest China's Guangxi zhuang Autonomous Region?to
attend the Commemorative Summit marking the 15th Anniversary of
China-ASEAN Dialogue Relations, slated to be held Monday.
The participants of the China-ASEAN summit include Philippine
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah,
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono, Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh,
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Myanmar Prime
Minister General Soe Win, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien
Loong, Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, Vietnamese Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and ASEAN Secretary-General Ong Keng
Yong.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will hold bilateral meetings with
the leaders respectively on the sidelines of the summit, which aims
at summing up their bilateral friendship relations and drawing up
future development course of China-ASEAN relations.
Some ASEAN countries leaders will also pay visit to China before
or after 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 29, 2006)
