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2000 Brunei Darussalam

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM’S SEPTEMBER 11

APEC YEAR

2001
The APEC Leaders’ Meeting held in Brunei Darussalam in November 2000

reaffirmed the confidence in APEC’s vision of a community of open and
interdependent economies as the means to strengthen our ability to grow
together in the global market and deliver prosperity to our people. The
APEC Leaders renewed their determination to bring this vision into reality
through shared commitment to the Bogor Goals of free and open trade

and investment and through a wide-ranging cooperation in building the
capacity of our people, institutions, infrastructure and markets according
to the action agenda agreed in Osaka, Japan.

Leaders from the 21
APEC Member Economies
gathering for the official
group photograph during the
APEC Leaders’ Week 2000 in
Brunei Darussalam.

The Voices of the Future students first convened in Singapore and

were treated to a review of key APEC education and capacity building
issues by Singapore’s Minister of Education, H.E. Teo Chee Hean
The September 11, 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers of the Voices of the Future were saddened by this act of
before traveling to Brunei. the World Trade Center in New York, USA by terrorists terror committed at the World Trade Center in New York
which killed 2,996 people and injured over 6,000 others and on behalf of all the Voices of the Future leaders,
Through their participation in the APEC CEO Summit and having the shocked the world. educators and students, we expressed our condolences
chance to engage policy makers and business leaders, the Voices and sympathies to those who had been injured and
of the Future student delegates again benefitted from the program The Voices of the Future program to be held in to the families who had lost their loved ones in the
Shanghai, China in October 2001 was cancelled due to attack. Our thoughts and prayers were with the grieving
and were able to bring back what they have learnt to their respective this unspeakable crime. The world communities were families, and we wished them strength and fortitude
economies to be shared with a wider audience so that they, too, swift to condemn the attacks. Leaders and members of during that difficult time.
can benefit from these events.

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