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The European Commission on Tuesday set out a broad vision for closer ties with Asia accenting more give-and-take in trade, security, investment and poverty reduction.
"Asia's importance for the EU is beyond question, whether economically, politically, culturally, or in relation to regional and global challenges such as poverty, environment, or democracy and human rights," External Relations Commission Chris Patten said in a statement.
"I invite our member states and our partners in the region to reflect on how we can work together to achieve this common goal," he said.
"In Asia, and particularly east Asia, the financial crisis in 1997 had a major economic, social and even political impact," he said.
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| BERLIN |
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder made an eloquent call in Berlin on Tuesday for concerns raised by those protesting globalization as undemocratic and a creator of poverty to be taken seriously.
Cautioning that he was not approving the violent protests that have wracked international ... |
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| GUATEMALA CITY |
A severe drought that has now caused dozens of starvation deaths in Guatemala is an extension of the poverty and ill health in which 80 percent of Guatemalans still live, officials said last week.
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| MEXICO CITY |
The European Union Friday sharply dismissed criticism of its farming subsidies, saying it had done far more than the United States, Canada or Japan to allow access to agricultural exports from poor countries.
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| BOGOTA |
| A team of top-level officials on Friday wrapped up the first US visit here since the January inauguration of President George W. Bush with an 880 million-dollar disbursement of funds for a regional initiative to fight poverty as part of ... |
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| MEXICO CITY |
| Trade ministers from rich and poor countries gathered in Mexico City Friday, hoping to narrow their differences over a proposed new round of global trade talks to be launched at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha meeting in ... |
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| DUSHANBE |
The poverty-stricken republic of Tajikistan received Friday a Japanese government grant of 16 million dollars aimed at easing economic reforms and alleviating poverty in the former Soviet state, officials said.
Some 80 per cent of the Central Asian republic's 6.1 million population live below the official poverty line, while the minimum wage stands at one dollar.
About one million people in the drought-hit country are in danger of starvation this winter unless emergency food supplies are provided, the international federation of the Red Cross and ... |
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| BISHKEK |
Once considered an island of democracy in the Central Asian region, Kyrgyzstan is in danger of being submerged under waves of instability a decade after it declared its independence.
Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev gained a ... |
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