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        "msgid": "south-korea-asean-to-start-trade-talks-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-11-25 00:00:00",
        "title": "South Korea, ASEAN to start trade talks",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "South Korea, ASEAN to start trade talks Agence France-Presse, Seoul South Korea will begin negotiating a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year, Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said on Wednesday. Seoul will make an official announcement when President Roh Moo-Hyun attends a summit in Laos for the 10-member regional trade bloc next week, Ban said. \"South Korea is a latecomer but will work hard,\" Ban told a weekly briefing.",
        "content": "<p>South Korea, ASEAN to start trade talks<\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse, Seoul<\/p>\n<p>South Korea will begin negotiating a free trade agreement with<br>\nthe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year,<br>\nForeign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul will make an official announcement when President Roh<br>\nMoo-Hyun attends a summit in Laos for the 10-member regional<br>\ntrade bloc next week, Ban said.<\/p>\n<p>\"South Korea is a latecomer but will work hard,\" Ban told a<br>\nweekly briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul, the world's 12th largest economy, has concluded only<br>\none FTA so far and has been slow in initiating free trade talks<br>\nwith other nations.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN is already negotiating separate free-trade agreements<br>\nwith China, Japan and India to be completed within 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea is expected to sign a comprehensive cooperation<br>\npartnership joint declaration with ASEAN to establish a free<br>\ntrade area within 10 years or earlier, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say economic integration would be one of the key<br>\nissues at the annual ASEAN summit to open in the Laotian capital<br>\nof Vientiane from Nov. 29-30.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,<br>\nMyanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea, which signed its first and only free trade pact<br>\nwith Chile last year, is negotiating separate free trade deals<br>\nwith Singapore and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Ban said he expected Seoul to reach an accord with Singapore<br>\nthis year.<\/p>\n<p>\"The government is aiming to strike a deal with Singapore<br>\nwithin this year. The deal is coming soon,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Progress in free trade negotiations between South Korea and<br>\nJapan, however, has been slow although both sides hope to sign an<br>\nagreement by 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts say the negotiations could be protracted due to<br>\ndifferences over when and how to eliminate tariffs as Seoul<br>\nremains concerned about its chronic trade deficit with Tokyo.<\/p>",
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