Following the G8 Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting Niigata(2008) and the 21st United Nations Disarmament Conference(2009), the APEC Ministerial Meeting on Food Security will be an important international convention to be held in Niigata.
Last week, on the margins of the G-20 Agriculture Ministerial Meeting in Niigata, Japan, Perdue met with Japanese government officials and affirmed the importance of science-based trade rules.
The L20, which is convened by the International Trade Union Confederation and the OECD, is taking place ahead of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting in Matsuyama, Japan on 1 and 2 September.
We welcome the outcomes of the various sectoral Ministerial Meetings held throughout the year and direct APEC fora to follow up on the recommendations.
It was also noted that the Ministerial Meetings, Working Groups and other relevant fora had prepared Action Programs which form an integral part of the Action Agenda.
As part of continuing efforts to support market confidence and business integrity, the OECD has launched in Asia a new set of corporate governance principles that were endorsed at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in September 2015.
Micro-plastics(MP) pollution in our oceans has become one of the most serious global environmental issues, and the topic has been discussed at the G7 Environmental Ministerial Meetings.
We welcomed the outcomes of the 5th APEC Tourism Ministers Meeting held in Lima in April 2008 including the adoption of the Pachacamac Declaration on Responsible Tourism in the Asia-Pacific Region.
We welcomed the outcomes of the Meeting of Ministers Responsible for SMEs and noted the progress on the APEC Integrated Plan of Action for the Development of SMEs(SPAN), including the incorporation of micro-enterprises development issues.
They noted that such efforts would build on existing areas of APEC work such as trade facilitation, transparency and regulatory reform, promote the sharing of best practices and support the outcomes of the 12th APEC SME Ministerial Meeting and focus on capacity building.
Since the inaugural Five Country Energy Ministers Meeting in Beijing, China in December 2006, when the crude oil prices were already high at around $60/bbl(WTI), the recent rise in oil prices to a peak of over $138 bbl has been the fastest and largest increase in oil market history.
We instruct our Ministers and officials to continue their work, including implementation of the recommendations, work programs, and action plans of the outcome documents for 2015 sectoral ministerial meetings and high-level policy dialogues, bearing in mind the vision contained in this Declaration, as well as our previous meetings..
Ministers highlighted the cross-cutting character of this theme and welcomed the work achieved this year in the First Meeting of APEC Ministers Responsible for Mining; SME Ministerial Meeting; the Third APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting; and the Fourth APEC Ministers Meeting on Regional Science and Technology Cooperation.
In the area of transport security, we welcome the declaration and statements adopted at the Ministerial Conference on International Transport Security in Tokyo on January 12-13, 2006, and its first operational outcomes, particularly the international working group on land transport security.
They also applauded the Third ASEM Educational Ministerial meeting in May 2011 in Denmark with focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, mathematical literacy and natural sciences, where the discussions were focused on quality assurance and recognition, engaging business and industry in education, balanced mobility, and lifelong learning including vocational education and training.
We endorse the outcome of the G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting and encourage our agriculture ministers to meet regularly to jointly facilitate sustainable agricultural development and food value chains, including through technological, institutional and social innovation, trade and responsible investment, as a means of food security, rural development and poverty alleviation.
We instruct our Ministers and officials to continue their work, including implementation of the recommendations, work programs, initiatives and action plans of the resulting documents from the 2016 Sectoral Ministerial Meetings and High-Level Policy Dialogues, bearing in mind the vision contained in this Declaration, as well as our previous meetings..
Recognizing the benefits to SME policy makers to better serve SME constituencies across APEC, Ministers also endorsed the"Voluntary Visitor Program for APEC SME Government Officials" and called for the United States to hold the program next spring and report on results to the 9th APEC SME Ministerial Meeting in August 2002.
In the discussions, the two sides recognized the importance of promoting cooperation for Arctic policy and scientific research that reflects the strengths of Japan and Iceland, and exchanged information regarding the Arctic Science Ministerial Meeting and Arctic Circle Regional Forum expected to be held in Japan in 2020, discussing future plans for these meetings..
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