ADB and Plan International partnered to organise the Asian Youth Forum, 120 youth leaders gathered in New Delhi. EIAS co-organised the session on Youth and Employment.
The Asian Development Outlook 2013 estimates that regional economic growth in the Asia Pacific region will pick up to 6.6% in 2013 and reach 6.7% in 2014. The outlook was presented at EIAS on 17 April 2013.
India and the EU sought this week to maintain their recent momentum in long-running negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), when Indian Trade Minister Anand Sharma passed through Brussels April 15 on the way home from another earlier high-level summit.
Catherine Ashton has stated that the reopening of the Yongbyon nuclear complex is in clear violation of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and urged North Korea to refrain from fuelling further tensions.
The mid-term elections in the Philippines took place on 13 May; 18,000 government official positions were elected including 12 senators, all 229 members of the House of Representatives, 880 provincial governors and vice provincial governors and 58 Party-list Representatives among other local seats.
The atmosphere in Pakistan leading up to the general election on 11 May was filled with optimism and much speculation despite the pockets of violence and assassination attempts by the Pakistani Taliban.
As the European Community strategic paper 2007-2013 for Mongolia outlines, ‘Mongolia has repeatedly expressed interest in upgrading its relations with the EU and in going beyond the current focus on traditional development cooperation.’
After the dissolution of the Parliament on 3 April 2013 and a very dynamic and heated electoral campaign, Malaysia held its 13th general election on 5 May 2013.
On 29 April 2013, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Moscow, marking the first visit to Russia of a Japanese Prime Minister in the past ten years.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton left China after a three-day visit, and on 28 April 2013 arrived in Mongolia.
The EU has taken the decision to permanently lift all sanctions on Myanmar with the exception of the arms embargo during a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on 22 April.
ADB's Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2013 was launched in Hong Kong on 9 April 2013 and presented at EIAS by Dr Joseph Zveglich on 17 April 2013. This ADO 2013 estimates that regional economic growth in the Asia Pacific region will pick up to 6.6% in 2013 and reach 6.7% in 2014.
For the second time, the EU-China CRN organised a Workshop on EU-China Relations in Global Politics at the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, 4-5 March 2013.
The Institute for European Studies (IEE-ULB) and the Legal Department of the Institute for European Studies (ULB) invite you to the event "Towards an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, a matter of Checks and Balances?".
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