By Gregory Poling and Phuong Nguyen
Center for Strategic and International Studies
August 29, 2012

The ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (AEM) and related meetings are taking place in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from August 25 to September 1. Economic and trade ministers from the 10 ASEAN member countries, together with their counterparts from dialogue partners China, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, Russia, and the United States, are gathering to discuss economic cooperation and trade liberalization within the ASEAN countries and between ASEAN and its foreign partners. This will be the highest-level ASEAN meeting since the failure of the foreign ministers to issue a joint communiqué at the contentious ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Phnom Penh in July.
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