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Suharto was elected as head of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1992, while Indonesia became a founding member of APEC in 1989 and host to the Bogor APEC Summit in 1994.

"It's very important to the United States that we have a strong dollar," he said at a news conference at the Asia-Pacific Ecoromic CooperAPECn forum, or APEC, in Singapore.

Just as the G20 in Turkey proved to be a summit within a summit about finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis, Apec in Manila is proving to be a summit within a summit about China's unsubtle assertion of its regional power.

"And when America hosts APEC in a few years, I look forward to seeing you all decked out in flowered shirts and grass skirts because today I am announcing that my home state of Hawaii will be hosting this forum in 2011".

This is especially as the leaders of the world's biggest economies, the US and China, are arriving from another big summit, Apec in Beijing, where a significant breakthrough on climate change was announced by Presidents Obama and Xi who agreed to limit emissions.

After its accession to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) in 1989, Brunei hosted the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November 2000 and the ASEAN Regional Forum ARFF) in July 2002.

Elsewhere, Russia takes pride in hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in 2012, in Vladivostok.

China pushed the FTAAP ahead of the 21-country APEC summit in Beijing in November, giving a new lease of life to an old idea.

Obama made the comments to his Russian counterpart on Sunday on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Peru in what could be their last meeting before the US president leaves office in January.

The Nikkei business newspaper, quoting unnamed Japanese government officials, said Abe was considering a visit to Pearl Harbor at about the time of the Apec summit in Peru in November.

Following this, a preliminary natural-gas deal between Russia and China was signed in the APEC Summit in November, which could open up a second major supply conduit between the two countries.