Washington, DC
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Asean trade ministers spent a week in the US this month, meeting with congressmen, business leaders and policymakers in the capital and Seattle, to promote the region’s economic potential.
The 10-nation bloc of countries has become one of the fastest-growing regions in the world, but Asean leaders need to convince Americans to look at it as a single unit, Asean’s secretary-general, Surin Pitsuwan, said.
“We are part of Southeast Asia, which is expected to be a locomotive pulling the global economy along,” he said. “And I think in the past we have never disappointed them, and we want to do more.”
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