| The Secretariat is staffed by 20 diplomats seconded from APEC member economies and by 20 local staff | |
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| Schmidt, Sarah 6 January 1998 |
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6| APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is the oldest such forum and is generally recognized as the highest-level multilateral process in Asia-Pacific | |
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| Phillips, Tom; Watts, Jonathan; Franklin, Jonathan 2019-10-30 | The APEC Secretariat is based in Singapore |
APEC represents the most dynamic economic region in the world, having generated nearly 70 per cent of global economic growth in its first 10 years [.
| The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC forum represents a potentially large-scale trade area that, when functioning in a concerted manner, could in the future work to shift the axis of global manufacturing and trade away from the North Atlantic—European region toward the Pacific | Leff, Alex 22 June 2011 |
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| British Columbia Civil Liberties Association BCCLA | Lee, Matthew 20 July 2011 |
The idea of APEC was firstly publicly broached by former Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke during a speech in Seoul, Korea, on 30 January 1969.
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