Background document

Background
document

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU)

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS - Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation (ICFTU - APRO)

Charting a Social
Dimension for ASEM

Background Document to the:

ICFTU/ICFTU-APRO Conference,
Seoul, 15-16 October 2000
Tower Hotel, Changchung-Dong

Third ASEM Summit, Seoul, 20-21 October 2000

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU)

ICFTU/ICFTU-APRO Conference, Seoul, 15-16 October 2000

Third ASEM Summit, Seoul, 20-21 October 2000

Table of Contents

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Paragraph	Section
1	Preamble
5	Founding of the ASEM: the 1996 Bangkok Summit
15	From the Asian financial Crisis to the 1998 London Summit
27	ASEM 1998 - 2000
37	Trade Unions in the ASEM process
51	Civil society and ASEM
53	The agenda for ASEM3
	54	Key economic issues
	58	The Asia Europe Vision Group report
	63	European Commission preparation for ASEM3
71	Parallels for ASEM in the international arena
74	The ASEM economy in 2001: recent predictions
75	Conclusions
	Glossary