Forensic officials examine the ruins of a bombed restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta July 18,2009. REUTERS/Presidential Palace/Abror Rizky/HandoutFrom Yahoo News/AFP:
PHUKET, Thailand (AFP) – Asian foreign ministers will gather Sunday ahead of the continent's biggest security dialogue, under the shadow of the Jakarta bomb attacks and North Korea's nuclear programme.
Political repression in Myanmar and the region's economy will also be on the agenda for days of talks in the Thai resort island of Phuket culminating in the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum.
The 27-member ARF, which includes nations from Asia as well as the European Union and the United States, meets here Thursday after talks by ministers from the 10-member ASEAN.
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