Whether U.S. national security was damaged by any of the alleged disclosures would depend on how detailed the information was and whether the woman knew any of it was classified, said Carl Baker, director of programs at Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies.
It also, according to Ralph Cossa, head of the Pacific Forum of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, sends a message to South Korea and China, alarmed by the Bush administration's taste for talking tough, and to hardliners in Mr Bush's own government, who are loth to grease the axis of evil in any way.
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the leading Asia-Pacific economic forum.
But he missed this week's annual summit of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Niue, one of 13 island microstates which, with Papua New Guinea (PNG), Australia and New Zealand, make up the PIF.
In Singapore, at the annual meeting of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said the goal toward joining the Trans Pacific Partnership would be achieved in close consultation with U.S. Congress, which is holding up the ratification of a U.S. free trade agreement with South Korea.
Next week, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will hold its annual summit in Vancouver, Canada.
They acknowledged that at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Singapore, dimming hopes for the Copenhagen summit.
Hanoi's chances of joining the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum would also improve.
He was again called to service last year, standing in for Lee at the leaders' summit in Osaka of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Twelve months ago, leaders from the 18 nations that comprise the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum gathered in the Philippines' sunny Subic Bay for their annual meeting.
Alongside the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement and U.S. participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the East Asia Summit, it will serve as a powerful statement of American engagement and staying power in East Asia.
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On April 22 and 23, some 300 Y2K experts and senior officials from member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum met in Singapore to review the region's readiness in finance, telecommunications, transport, customs and energy.
More brainstorming is needed, especially within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and at an imminent meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, whose banks hold much of the Indonesian debt at the root of the crisis.
In 2010, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report listed 19 organizations with ongoing initiatives that influence cybersecurity and governance, including the International Telecommunication Union, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the International Organization for Standardization, and the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum (Apec), set up in 1989 mainly to promote trade among Pacific Rim states, now accounts for more than half of global economic output and almost half of all international trade.
The NZ National Commission for UNESCO is hosting a forum on Pacific Languages in New Zealand 2: the future of Pacific languages.
Currently there are very few Pacific curators and the forum will be a first of its kind in bringing together curators, academics, artists and cultural commentators to dialogue around the issues surrounding our marginalised presence in the wider visual arts world.
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As the USGS report came out, the US administration was negotiating the "Sydney Declaration", a document on climate change, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Australia.
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America has opposed the idea, preferring to see regional trade and economic issues dealt with in the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum, in which it is included.
Under negotiation since 1996, the agreement was approved in principle last July, and due to be signed at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in New Zealand in September.
At the 13th Annual Pacific Crest Global Technology Leadership Forum, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg asserted that a title like Call of Duty is still vastly more popular than any title Facebook can muster.
In Thailand he will join other regional leaders at the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
Irina Bokova will address the opening of the Ministerial Forum of the Asia Pacific region, in the presence of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina.
Significantly, he has invited President Lula to visit Peru when it hosts the November summit of the 21 Pacific Rim countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
The outcomes of this Power Shift Pacific: Looking Beyond Disaster Youth Forum, will include the development of action plans and youth projects to be implemented in different communities, as well as the development of a Pacific youth volunteer network enabling an exchange of information between Pacific Island youth living abroad and their island communities.
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Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have determined that the focus of their capacity development will be using the Pacific Professional Standards for School Principals (PPSSP) approved at the FEdMM (Forum Education Ministers Meeting) in Port Vila, Vanuatu, earlier this year.
This was a marked scaling back of China's engagement with the forum, which has become an important venue for informal contact between Asia-Pacific military chiefs (as well as some from Europe) since it was launched in 2002.
While TripAdvisor is currently the number 1 online travel community in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, it implicitly competes with large social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter which also offer a forum for users to discuss travel plans and exchange reviews.
The work of the Forum is informed by five regional workshops held in 2011 (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and the Arab States) and the conclusions of the Planet under Pressure Conference held in London in March 2012.
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