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RI PRESIDENT TO SPEAK ON CLIMATE CHANGE AT ASEM SUMMIT
Jakarta, Oct 10 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to deliver a speech on climate change at an Asia-Europe (ASEM) summit meeting in Beijing later this October, a foreign ministry official said.
"Indonesia is considered able to play a positive, constructive and important role on environment issues. The Chinese government has specifically asked President Yudhoyono to speak about climate change," Dian Wirengjurit, director of intra-regional cooperation for America and Europe at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, said on Friday.
The ASEM summit would take place in Beijing October 24 to 25, 2008 and be attended by 43 ASEM member counries, the ASEAN secretary general as well as the president of the European Comission.
"On the summit's sidelines, President Yudhoyono is also scheduled to have private meetings with the leaders of other ASEM member countries at their request," Wirengjurit said.
"The summit will be divided into four sessions. The first session will be on global issues such as food security, disaster preparedness and management. The topics of the second session will be promotion of Asia-Europe trade and investment and the third session will be on MDGs (Millenium Development Goals), energy and climate change. In the fourth session, the summit will discuss how to deepen the dialogue between civilizations," Wirengjurit said.
Apart from attending the summit and holding bilateral meetings, President Yudhoyono would also take part in a working lunch where the leaders of ASEM's member countries would speak on issues of global concern such as regional and international development.
"President Yudhoyono is likely to speak about global security and express his concern about the possibility of another Cold War breaking out as suggested in an article published by the International Herald Tribune," said Wirengjurit.
President Yudhoyono was also scheduled to deliver a speech at Beijing University.
ASEM was formed in 1996 while its membership comprises ASEAN's 10 member countries, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Mongolia, Pakistan, 27 European Union countries, the ASEAN secretary general and the European Commission president.
"Indonesia is considered able to play a positive, constructive and important role on environment issues. The Chinese government has specifically asked President Yudhoyono to speak about climate change," Dian Wirengjurit, director of intra-regional cooperation for America and Europe at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, said on Friday.
The ASEM summit would take place in Beijing October 24 to 25, 2008 and be attended by 43 ASEM member counries, the ASEAN secretary general as well as the president of the European Comission.
"On the summit's sidelines, President Yudhoyono is also scheduled to have private meetings with the leaders of other ASEM member countries at their request," Wirengjurit said.
"The summit will be divided into four sessions. The first session will be on global issues such as food security, disaster preparedness and management. The topics of the second session will be promotion of Asia-Europe trade and investment and the third session will be on MDGs (Millenium Development Goals), energy and climate change. In the fourth session, the summit will discuss how to deepen the dialogue between civilizations," Wirengjurit said.
Apart from attending the summit and holding bilateral meetings, President Yudhoyono would also take part in a working lunch where the leaders of ASEM's member countries would speak on issues of global concern such as regional and international development.
"President Yudhoyono is likely to speak about global security and express his concern about the possibility of another Cold War breaking out as suggested in an article published by the International Herald Tribune," said Wirengjurit.
President Yudhoyono was also scheduled to deliver a speech at Beijing University.
ASEM was formed in 1996 while its membership comprises ASEAN's 10 member countries, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Mongolia, Pakistan, 27 European Union countries, the ASEAN secretary general and the European Commission president.
