Brussels, 08/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Union and the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) are to hold a ministerial meeting on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 December in Vientiane in Laos, in the presence of fourteen ministers (only four of whom are European) and neither of the two Commissioners responsible for external relations. The meeting, the first since 1997, will be more symbolic than substantial, above all marking the resumption of ministerial dialogue that had been broken...