The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) opened its three-day meeting in Ha Noi on the afternoon of Nov. 14 to discuss trade and investment liberalization, finance, capacity building, technology and other related issues.
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The ABAC meeting entitled "Driving forward a prosperous and harmonized APEC community" is the fourth of its kind held by the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) as Chairman of ABAC 2006 during the APEC Year 2006. The three previous meetings, also held by the VCCI, were in
The Chair of the 14th APEC Economic Leaders Meeting, Nguyen Minh Triet, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony attended by 196 delegates and VCCI Vice Chairman Hoang Van Dung chaired the meeting.
During the three-day ABAC meeting, there will be meetings held by the Communications Core Group and the Action Plan Monitoring Committee, and discussions of the Trade and Investment Liberalization and Facilitation Working Group, the Finance Working Group, the Capacity Building Working Group and the Technology Working Group.
ABAC was founded by APEC economic leaders in November 1995 to provide important business advice to their economic leaders. ABAC comprises of three representatives from the private economic sector of each APEC member economy.
(Source: VNA)
