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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE YEAR 2010 has become history. The Asia-Pacific Region (APR) which stretches from Iran to Japan and the South Pacific islands used it to leave the global financial and economic crisis behind; move to dynamic development; acquire and strengthen new poles of growth and influence and push forward multisided cooperation.
Much of what was going on there, however, caused concern: repeated flare-ups of old disagreements and conflicts; the challenges and threats of the last few decades as well as the still very much obvious gap between the development levels of some of the states and sub-regions. In other words, very much as before the region scored up impressive achievements and was still grappling with numerous unresolved problems.
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