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Around 70 APEC delegates to attend academic meeting in Piura

(LIP-do) -- About 70 delegates from universities of the 21 world economies will meet tomorrow Thursday to participate of the “APEC Peru 2008 ASCC Meeting”, event of the Academic Community of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Forum (APEC), which will take place at the University of Piura.

The meeting that will last until Friday 20, is organized by the Peruvian Network for Asia Pacific Studies (Redap), integrated by a group of prestigious national universities, among them the University of Piura. The professor of the Faculty of Economics and Business and representative of Redap, Guillermo Cangahuala, indicated the working table is important because academics will discuss, among other topics, how APEC member countries can increase the trade, investment and cooperation relations.
         
“The meeting goal is to reflect, with a technical perspective, on topics of international trade among the APEC member economies, besides other topics of world interest and significant for governors, politicians, civil society, and the academic community in general”, he stated. Cangahuala indicated the University of Piura is pleased to host such important international event and said it has been provided with all needed resources to insure the success of the meeting.

Redap, which was created on August 1997, has the purpose of contributing with an independent thinking for the generation and spreading of knowledge, as well as the taking of decisions in the aspects related to the country location in the Asia-Pacific and to its participation in events as APEC.