Senior Administration Officials Hold a White House Background Briefing On the President's Upcoming Trip to the Apec Summit

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Senior Administration Officials Hold a White House Background Briefing On the President's Upcoming Trip to the Apec Summit

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HOLD WHITE HOUSE BACKGROUND BRIEFING ON THE PRESIDENT'S UPCOMING VISIT TO THE APEC SUMMIT, AS RELEASED BY THE FOREIGN PRESS CENTER

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

SPEAKERS: SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS

[*] MODERATOR: Good afternoon, and welcome to this afternoon's briefing on the President's upcoming trip to the APEC summit. This afternoon's briefing is on background with our two Senior Administration Officials. We'll begin with a short opening statement and then take your questions for about 35-40 minutes. Thank you.

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL ONE: Thank you. Good afternoon. As you Steve Hadley made clear in a press conference I think late last week, and I think those remarks are on the White House press site, the President and Mrs. Bush will depart on November 14th for Southeast Asia, and they will be traveling to three countries, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia. This will be the President's second trip to Singapore and Indonesia and his first trip to Vietnam.

The President is traveling to Asia to attend a leaders meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum or APEC. And his purpose is to advance the core APEC goals of economic growth, trade liberalization and trade-related security. While the President is there, he will be reinforcing the key themes of creating conditions for sustainable growth, addressing threats that stand in the way of sustainable growth, helping to build societies that actually support sustainable growth in the region and on thinking about with other leaders about the ways in which APEC can be reformed to continue to push that ambitious agenda.

The President will also visit...

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