Asia-Europe Foreign Ministers Meeting

HC Deb 24 March 1999 vol 328 cc299-300W

Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish the agenda for the forthcoming Asia-Europe Foreign Ministers meeting of 29 and 30 March. [78394]

Mr. Fatchett

The Asia-Europe Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Berlin on 28–29 March 1999 will discuss regional and international issues of common interest. It will also review progress on the wide range of ASEM initiatives promoting economic, social, environmental, cultural and law enforcement co-operation, particularly those initiatives endorsed by Leaders at the Second Asia-Europe Meeting in London on 3–4 April 1998. Publication of the formal agenda is a matter for the German Federal Government as host of the meeting.