Monday, September 1st, 2003
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0900 – 1730
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Focus Workshops
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1900 – 2100
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Official Opening and Gala Dinner
Opening keynote address: His Majesty, the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003
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0730 - 0900
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Breakfast launch of Sustainable Cities Best Practices
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0900 – 1030
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Plenary Session I: Regional Stocktaking: Is it now Everyone for Themselves in the Asia Pacific region?
Key Issues:
- Changing geopolitical situation and relationships
- Responses to terrorism and health threats and regional implications for trade and investment
- Plethora of regional trading arrangements and their multi-track character
- Regional Economic outlook
Role Players:
- Tan Sri Dr. Noordin Sopiee; Chair, Malaysia PECC & ISIS Malaysia [Scene-setter]
- H.E. Michel Rocard; Former Prime Minister of France
- Mr. Raymond Lim; Minister of State for Trade & Industry and Foreign Affairs, Singapore
- Mr. Ichiro Fujisaki; Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan
- Mr. Jusuf Wanandi; Chair, Indonesia PECC [Moderator]
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1045 - 1300
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Plenary Session II: Doha Faltering: Key Messages for the Cancun WTO Ministerial and Beyond
Key Issues:
- Doha Development Agenda: Outlook and Issues
- Interrelationship between RTAs and WTO
Role players Panel 1: (1045hrs - 1145hrs)
Key Issues:
- How Far Can We Go with Regional Integration: a View from China
- Asia Pacific stake in the Doha Agenda and its possible contributions
- The stake of Asia-Pacific business in the agriculture negotiations
Role Players Panel 2: (1150hrs - 1250hrs)
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1300 - 1400
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Luncheon
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1400 - 1530
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Plenary Session III: Strategic Resources: Are Markets for Minerals and Energy up to the Challenge?
Key Issues:
- Medium and longer term demand and supply of energy (and minerals)
- Importance of market based solutions
- New projects and energy developments and their implications for existing supplying and consuming economies
Role Players:
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1545- 1715
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Plenary Session IV: The Task Ahead on Private-Public sector Partnership
Key Issues:
- Interim stock take on progress in the region with key indicators on ICT and Knowledge-based development
- policy priorities ahead to attract investment
- Focused training and education especially for developing economies
- SME issues
Role Players:
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1900 - 2100
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Dinner
Special Guest "A Conversation with Dr. Victor Fung (Group Chairman, Li & Fung) with Victor Mallet (Chief Asia Correspondent, Financial Times)
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003
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0830 - 1000
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Plenary Session V : Building Financial Stability from the Foundation: Domestic Institutions, Regional Links and Global Reach
Key issues:
- Score card on financial infrastructures in East Asia and Latin America
- Building institutions and capacities at home: priorities and approaches
- Challenges of creating regional capital markets subject to global reach
- Cooperative initiatives for building institutions, domestic and regional.
Role Players:
- Mr. John Ridding; Editor and Publisher, Financial Times Asian Edition [Scene-setter]
- Mr. David Eldon; Chairman, Hong Kong & Shanghai banking Corporation Ltd
- Dr. Jesus Estabislao; President & CEO, Institute of Corporate Directors and Former Philippines Finance Secretary
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- Dr. Jeffrey Koo; Chairman, Chinatrust Financial Holdings
- Dr. Soogil Young; PECC Finance Forum Coordinator [Moderator]
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Special Keynote Addresses
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1000 - 1030 |
Keynote Speaker
Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
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1045-1115
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Keynote Speaker:
H.E. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Philippines
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1115 - 1230
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Plenary Session VI: Revisiting the Pacific Community: the Way Forward
Panel Discussion
Key Issues:
- Are business and politics on the same course?
- Challenges and dangers of separate integration tracks
- Managing hubs and spokes: US, China, Japan, India, ASEAN, Latin America
- Implications for transpacific trade and investment
- Keeping the transpacific relationship alive as a source of growth
- Essential elements for success with separate integration tracks
- Implications and directions for APEC
Role Players:
- Mr. Timothy Ong; Co-Chairman, The Edge Asia Inc. [Scene-setter]
- Mr. Daniel Wagner; Political Risk Specialist, Asian Development Bank
- Ms. Lauren Moriarty; US APEC Senior Official
- Dr. Hadi Soesastro; Executive Director, CSIS Indonesia [Session Chair]
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1230 - 1245
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Adoption of the Brunei Declaration and Handover of the PECC Chair
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1300 – 1415
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Closing Luncheon
Keynote Address: APEC as a Force for Unity in a World of Differences
His Excellency Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand and Host of APEC 2003
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