MELBOURNE The Western Pacific is currently facing a difficult problem how to accommodate China s rising aspirations in a region where the United States has held primacy since the Cold War s end. Is the US determined to maintain dominance in the Asia Pacific region?

Pacific region, 1999 2002

Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, The value of the fisheries in the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's Area, July 1999, pp. 3, 6.

Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, The value of the fisheries in the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's Area, July 1999, p. 3 4.

The stocks of the Western and Central Pacific are a significant natural resource for Pacific coastal States.

We're starting to do it in the Western Pacific as well.

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and the Pacific (ESCWA)

The first leg of the offensive was the idea of the Indo Pacific region, which Clinton developed a year ago and followed up this year with an essay called America s Pacific Century. There, she defines the new region of US strategic engagement as stretching from the Indian subcontinent to the western shores of the Americas.

The experience of the Asian and Pacific Region

See Manoa, P., L. Apps, and Q. Hanich, Development without destruction Towards sustainable Pacific fisheries, Greenpeace, 2004, p. 13 and Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, The Value of the fisheries in the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council's Area, July 1999, p. 7, found at www.wpcouncil.org documents value.pdf.

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59 2 Strengthening social safety in the Asian and Pacific region

That is as true in our Asia Pacific region as elsewhere.

The 2,920 kilogram satellite was built by Hughes Aircraft Co. and became PanAmSat apos s first private international satellite for the Pacific Ocean Region, providing television coverage from the Western United States to the Asian mainland.

Asia and the Pacific Parties from the Asia and the Pacific region proposed 14 renewable energy projects with various technology options.

The Group also agreed to continue engaging non participants, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, the western Balkans and key transshipment countries, to promote more robust export control standards, as required under Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).

The impact on local artisanal fishermen and women is nowhere better illustrated than in the Western and Central Pacific where an estimated 10 percent of the total tuna catch is taken by vessels based in the region.

We are very near to achieving universality in the Asia Pacific region.

Countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia region

Waste management is one of the major environmental issues within the Pacific region.

Countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific region

Mindful of the vastness of, and diversities within the Asian and Pacific Region,

China will continue to work with all parties to promote the steady development of economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific region and promote the development and prosperity of the Asia Pacific region and the world.

Iraqi army units continue to assume security responsibility in the western region.

However, their performances display wide disparity, including, in particular, in the Asia Pacific region.

Efforts to eliminate poverty in the Asian and Pacific region have produced mixed results.

The programme involved 30 representatives, including 13 women, from the Asia and Pacific region.

21 29 Establishment of a regional seas programme for the Central East Pacific region

55 1 Sustainable development of inland water transport in the Asian and Pacific region

Similar cases of drastically lower catches have also been reported in other areas of the Western and Central Pacific.

Three months later, the militarist aggressors that had savaged the Asia Pacific region also surrendered.

Encourage the States of the Asian and Pacific region to host the next annual workshop.

Pacific countries are developing, with the support of the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, a strategy for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework in their region.

The representatives of Governments of the Asian and Pacific Region attending the thirteenth Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asian and Pacific Region, held in Beijing from 30 August to 2 September 2005,

In this connection, the Special Committee will hold a seminar in the Pacific region in 2006.

2005 Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian Pacific region

Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian and Pacific region

Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian and Pacific region

Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian and Pacific region

Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian and Pacific region

Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian and Pacific Region

Given the diversity of conflicts and State structures in the region, the privatization of war machinery in the Asian Pacific Region had several distinct manifestations

The regions are Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and Western Europe and other States.

The project will be implemented in four regions Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and Western Asia.

(d) Adaptation of the Safer Cities toolkit to the Asia and the Pacific region, based on pilot initiatives and practices in the region and training modules