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        "msgid": "australia-agrees-on-tac-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-07-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Australia agrees on TAC",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Australia agrees on TAC AUSTRALIA: Australia will join a new East Asia Summit later this year, foreign minister Alexander Downer said on Tuesday, after bowing to regional pressure and agreeing to sign a mandatory peace pact. Southeast Asian foreign ministers meeting in Laos confirmed that Australia would be an \"inaugural participant\" in the summit to be held in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in December, Downer said in a statement.",
        "content": "<p>Australia agrees on TAC<\/p>\n<p>AUSTRALIA: Australia will join a new East Asia Summit later this<br>\nyear, foreign minister Alexander Downer said on Tuesday, after<br>\nbowing to regional pressure and agreeing to sign a mandatory<br>\npeace pact.<\/p>\n<p>Southeast Asian foreign ministers meeting in Laos confirmed<br>\nthat Australia would be an \"inaugural participant\" in the summit<br>\nto be held in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in December,<br>\nDowner said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\"Australia looks forward to making a constructive contribution<br>\nto the East Asia Summit,\" he said of the gathering of leaders<br>\nfrom Southeast Asia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New<br>\nZealand.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation from the 10-member Association of Southeast<br>\nAsian Nations came after Australia agreed to accede to a 1976<br>\nTreaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) which prohibits the use of<br>\nforce in the settlement of regional disputes and binds members<br>\nfrom interfering in the internal affairs of ASEAN countries.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN had insisted that Australia, keen for a stronger voice<br>\nin Asian diplomacy and seeking wider trade ties, sign the Treaty<br>\nof Amity and Cooperation before Canberra was invited to the<br>\nsummit. -- Reuters<\/p>",
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