Attendance by Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Ikuo Yamahana at the Fifth Forum for East Asia Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC)

August 23, 2011
Japanese

From Wednesday, August 24, to Thursday, August 25, Parliamentary Vice-Minister Ikuo Yamahana will visit Buenos Aries, Argentina, to attend the Fifth Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC).
FEALAC is an international framework comprising 34 countries (16 from Asia, 18 from Latin America), which aims to bolster wide-scale cooperative relations between Asia and Latin America. Ministerial meetings are held once every two years in principle; the previous FEALAC meeting was held in January 2010. This, the fifth FEALAC, is being attended by ministers and vice-ministers from every member country.
It is expected that the Forum will discuss the furthering of cooperation among Asian and Latin American states in their respective regions and the many issues each region and the international community are confronting (namely: 1. the environment / sustainable development; 2. the international economic crisis; 3. human rights issues; etc.).

[SCHEDULE]

August 24	a.m.	Arrival at Buenos Aires
	p.m.	Foreign Ministers' Retreat
August 25		Foreign Ministers' Meeting
	evening	Departure from Buenos Aires

[REFERENCE] The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC)
1. Established in1999

2. 34 member countries
   — 16 members from Asia
      Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia
   — and 18 members from Latin America
      Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico

3. Purpose:
   Strengthening cooperative relations on a broad scale between Asia and Latin America

4. Organization:
   The Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is the highest decision-making framework. There are also Senior Officials Meetings and three Working Groups:
      (1) Politics, Culture and Education,
      (2) Economy and Society and
      (3) Science and Technology.

(*This is a provisional translation. The above date denotes the date of the issue of the original press release in Japanese.)

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