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ASEAN Promote Legal Cooperation, Development

2005/10/31

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will jointly promote legal development to better serve the operations of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone, according to information obtained from the organizing committee of the second China-ASEAN forum on legal affairs in Nanning on October 10.

About 200 legal, economic and trade professionals from China and ASEAN countries participated in the second Forum on Legal Affairs of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Participants in the forum discussed the institution of a legal mechanism for settling trade disputes between China and ASEAN member nations, and setting up an economic and investment guarantee mechanism, which would be recognized by all members of the Free Trade Zone.

They also conferred on enhancing legal cooperation between China and ASEAN member nations and the gradual improvement of economic and trade laws and regulations of every country in the free trade zone.

The second China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone forum on legal affairs was sponsored jointly by the Secretariat of the China-ASEAN Expo, to be held in Nanning from October 19 to 22, and the All-China Lawyers Association.



	Article featured in Business Beijing, October 2005 Publication sponsored by Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Development & Reform Commission of Beijing Municipality, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (Beijing Sub-Council)