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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8765

10 August 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/asia
Attempts to salvage EU-ASEM October summit

Brussels, 09/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Burmese prime minister, General Khin Nyunt, met with the Vietnamese prime minister, Phan Van Khai, on Monday. Vietnam is scheduled to host the EU-ASEM summit in Hanoi in October. The two leaders tried to move towards a compromise to enable the summit to actually take place (it was suspended because the EU opposes Burma's membership of ASEM, but ASEM countries refuse to agree to Burma's exclusion). The controversy has already led to the cancellation...