Clinton to sign peace treaty with ASEAN next week

October 12th, 2009 MOSCOW - US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is expected to focus on Iran's nuclear programme and the replacement of the current arms reduction treaty between Washington and Moscow during her official visit here, a report said Tuesday. Clinton, who arrived late Monday for a two-day official visit to Russia, is scheduled to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other Russian officials, the report added.

October 2nd, 2009 Clinton to visit Britain, Ireland, RussiaWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels next week to Britain, Ireland and Russia for wide-ranging talks on economic and counterterrorism cooperation and arms control. The State Department said Friday that Clinton would visit London, Dublin, Belfast and Moscow from Oct.

September 15th, 2009 Clinton to lead weapons conference delegatesWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will lead a delegation and deliver the U.S. statement at a conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to be held Sept.

July 26th, 2009 Myanmar criticizes Clinton following ASEAN meetingYANGON, Myanmar — A Myanmar state-run newspaper on Sunday accused U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of interfering in the affairs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations after she urged its members to press for more democratic reforms in the country.

July 22nd, 2009 PHUKET - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Wednesday signed Southeast Asia's main friendship and security treaty in a gesture signalling America's return to the region. "The United States is back in southeast Asia," Clinton told a press conference minutes before signing the Treaty on Amity and Cooperation in South-East Asia (TAC), a loose code of conduct for the region signed by the original founding members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1976.

July 22nd, 2009 PHUKET - India Wednesday made a strong pitch for a pan-Asian response to global challenges like financial meltdown and terrorism as it gets ready to sign a free trade area (FTA) agreement in goods at its next summit with the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Thailand in October. "The steady diversification of our relationship with ASEAN countries is, therefore, a natural process and for us, a matter of deep satisfaction," India's External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 21st, 2009 BANGKOK - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday condemned the Myanmar junta's imprisonment of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and raised worries about Pyongyang-Myanmar military ties. "We have made it clear that we expect fair treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi, and we have condemned the way she has been treated by the regime in Burma," Clinton told a press conference before attending the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Phuket this week.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Tuesday left for the Thai island resort of Phuket to attend Asia's biggest annual security gathering that will be dominated by terrorism, the North Korean nuclear issue and the global financial crisis.

July 20th, 2009 PHUKET - The 42nd annual meeting of the foreign ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) wound up Monday with a strongly worded joint statement on regional security issues but little action. The ASEAN foreign ministers' final joint statement condemned last week's Jakarta bombings and North Korea's recent underground nuclear test while calling for the freedom of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hours after their meeting in the Indian capital, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will Tuesday head separately to Thailand to attend Asia's top security forum that will be dominated by terrorism, the North Korean nuclear issue and the global financial crisis.

July 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A spokesman for the U.S. State Department has said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will discuss ways to enhance the US-India strategic partnership during her five day visit to India from July 17 to 23.

July 6th, 2009 Reports: presidents to sign "road map"MOSCOW — Russian news agencies are citing a top diplomat as saying President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will sign a "road map" for a future treaty to replace the START arms control agreement. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov is quoted as saying that the document, called a "a joint understanding on questions of the further cuts and limitations on strategic offensive weapons," will not contain details for the new treaty.

May 20th, 2009 LONDON - Rejecting Australian Defence White Paper's claims that the US supremacy is fading in the Asia-Pacific region, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the US did not see the rise of China as "a zero-sum game" which would inevitably leave America weakened. Speaking to the foreign press corps in Washington DC overnight, Clinton rejected that the economic rise of China and other nations in the region would inevitably mean that US power would decline after 2030 - and that Australia needs to prepare for that world.

January 25th, 2009 BANGKOK - A free trade agreement (FTA) between India and South-East Asia will be signed at the upcoming summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) if the Thai parliament approves the pact, officials said Monday. 'The ASEAN economic ministers have invited the Indian commerce minister to sign the FTA Feb 26,' said Tharit Charungvat, Thai foreign ministry spokesman.

January 24th, 2009 BANGKOK - A free trade agreement between India and South-east Asia is expected to be signed at the upcoming summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean), state-run media reported Sunday. Director-general Apiradi Tantraporn of Thailand's Foreign Trade Department said the pact was planned for the 14th Asean Summit scheduled Feb 27-March 1 at Hua Hin beach resort, 130 km south-west of Bangkok, the Thai News Agency reported.