Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Seminar: “Regionalism vs. Universalism in Global Order”


When: 27 Sep 2006 to 30 Sep 2006
Where: Jachranka, Poland


Successful communication and dialogue always begin with contacts between people who know little or nothing about each other. Deep understanding and cooperation between societies begin with meetings of their leaders and diplomats. Young and not-biased future diplomats may bring in a fresh perspective into multidimensional dialogue between Asia and Europe. Over the past decade, the European Union has been developing rapidly its relations with Asian countries within the framework of ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting). Following recent wave of the EU enlargement and the ASEM V Summit in October 2004 held in Hanoi, new member states of the Union became fully-fledged participants of this platform of dialogue.

Bearing in mind recommendations of ASEM 5, Hanoi, Poland during ASEM FMM in Kyoto (May 2005) proposed to establish the ASEM DIPLOMATIC ACADEMIES NETWORK as a platform of enhancing mutual respect, understanding and equality between Asia and Europe societies.

Establishing within ASEM framework an informal cooperation between Asian and European diplomatic academies will complement existing cooperation levels and fit in ASEM working methodology.

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