In his remarks opening the main session of the 6th East Asia Summit at the Bali International Convention Center (BICC) in Nusa Dua, the President said the first point on the agenda was strengthening the economy of the East Asian region.
The second point was a joint efforts to develop and enhance food, energy, and water security, and overcome climate change, while the third point was joint efforts to overcome non-traditional security threats such as terrorism, natural disasters, and trans national crime.
The fourth point was joint efforts to maintain peace, security, and regional stability as a precondition to creating prosperity of the nations in this region, Yudhoyono said.
Present at the meeting were President Yudhoyono himself as ASEAN chairman, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung of Vietnam, Prime Minister Thingsing Thammavong of Laos, Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia, President Thein Sein of Myanmar, President Aquino III of the Philippines, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long of Singapore, and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of Thailand.
Also present were the heads of state/government from ASEAN dialog partners namely Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Chinese Prime Minister China Wen Jiabao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, and US President Barack Obama. (*)
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