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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7862

13 December 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/asean
Dialogue relaunched and Asian countries accept principal of new WTO negotiation round

Brussels, 12/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Union and the countries of South east Asia ended their first ministerial meeting in three years, on Tuesday, having approved a joint declaration that touches upon the issue of Burma (which had been at the origin of the suspension of the dialogue), as well as other issues of dissention between the two blocks. It is a "success as, for the first time, the ASEAN countries agreed to raise the situation in one of their member countries, whereas...

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