APEC Media Roundup: MEETING - September 9, 2007

Links to coverage of the APEC 2007 meeting in Sydney this week from media around the Pacific rim.

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New Zealand

APEC leaders agree climate change pact
Asia-Pacific leaders have agreed to a "long-term aspirational goal" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but no binding targets, and are expected to end their summit on Sunday urging a conclusion to world trade talks. LINK

Climate accord is coup for Howard
By TRACEY WATKINS - Sunday Star Times

Protected by steel fences and police snipers, Helen Clark and other world leaders have thrashed out an international climate change deal; but for those standing outside the fence, it has already become Apec's shame. LINK

Clark pleased with Apec declaration
TVNZ

The Prime Minister says the Sydney declaration on climate change is the best that could be hoped for from the 21 leaders at the Apec summit. LINK

Clark's lone stand at Apec
TVNZ

The world leaders' Apec summit has wound up in Sydney with Helen Clark taking what appears to be a lone stand against nuclear energy in the agreement over climate change. LINK

Australia

Plane breaches security

Two F/A-18 fighter jets have reportedly fired flares at a light plane that entered restricted airspace over Sydney. LINK

APEC ends with thanks
Geoff Spencer

The APEC summit came to a close today, with Prime Minister John Howard thanking the people of Sydney for putting up with the inconvenience of the city's greatest ever peacetime security clampdown. LINK

Jailed for jaywalking
Matthew Benns

A FATHER of three wept yesterday as he revealed how crossing the road ahead of an APEC motorcade led to his violent arrest in front of his young son and a traumatic 22 hours in jail. LINK

Bush leaves Australia after APEC summit

US President George Bush left Australia in the middle of the APEC leaders' summit to return to Washington to prepare a crucial White House report on the war in Iraq. LINK

Guests given an Australian icon courtesy of the missus
Heath Gilmore

JOHN HOWARD emerged from the gloom inside the Opera House yesterday to an explosion of camera flashes - the secret of the APEC silly shirt was out. LINK

China wary of meeting
Frank Walker

JOHN Howard welcomed 20 world leaders to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at the Opera House yesterday, with the Prime Minister anxious to get the leaders to agree on a Sydney Declaration for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. LINK

Better halves meet the natives
Sarah Price and Louise Hall

WHILE the APEC leaders spent yesterday indoors, their spouses took a walk on the wild side of Sydney. LINK

'Tyranny' at Bondi

A Sydney woman says she was locked in changing rooms at the famous Bondi Icebergs complex while the spouses of world leaders dined in style above. LINK

Sydney Declaration on Climate Change and Energy

We, the APEC Economic Leaders, agree that economic growth, energy security and climate change are fundamental and interlinked challenges for the APEC region. LINK

Leaders call for action on trade talks

APEC leaders have issued an urgent call to all countries involved in the Doha round of trade talks to find a way to resolve the negotiations. LINK

Leaders call for action on trade talks

APEC leaders have issued an urgent call to all countries involved in the Doha round of trade talks to find a way to resolve the negotiations. LINK

APEC in media questions gaffe

APEC organisers have been forced into an embarrassing backdown today after asking journalists to submit the questions they intended to ask Prime Minister John Howard. LINK

Howard thanks Sydney for APEC patience

PRIME Minister John Howard has thanked Sydney residents for having to endure a week of disruptions caused by an unprecedented security operation surrounding the APEC summit of 21 world leaders. LINK

PM declares APEC meeting very successful

Prime Minister John Howard has described the APEC summit, which concluded on Sunday, as successful. LINK

APEC organisers try to vet PM questions

APEC organisers have been forced into an embarrassing backdown after asking journalists to submit the questions they intended to ask Prime Minister John Howard. LINK

Investigation starts into APEC airspace breach

An investigation is being held into how a small aircraft created a security scare in APEC-restricted airspace over Sydney this afternoon. LINK

United States

APEC Forges Deal on Climate Change
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Pacific Rim leaders agreed Saturday to curb global warming by improving energy use and expanding forests, laying out a plan they hope will influence future climate change talks but that critics dismissed as too timid. LINK

APEC Summit Ends With Pledge For Doha Deal

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific leaders called for a speedy resolution to stalled global trade talks on Sunday, pledging flexibility and ambition to get the outline of a deal by year's end. LINK

Bush Irks Australians, but They Can’t Look Away
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 8 — “Oh, you people are recording my every move,” President Bush lamented to Annabel Crabb, a political columnist for a local newspaper, as she watched him pick his way through some pasta salad at a buffet barbecue for Australian troops the other day. LINK

APEC outlines action on climate

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Pacific Rim nations reached tentative agreement on the need "to slow, stop and then reverse" climate change, setting nonbinding goals to improve energy use, according to a draft statement Saturday. LINK

China

Hu: China, Russia need to enhance security co-op
(Xinhua)

China and Russia have the necessity to continue to enhance strategic cooperation in Asia-Pacific security and other areas in a joint effort to safeguard regional and world peace and stability, Chinese President Hu Jintao said in Sydney Saturday. LINK

Early ending of FTA talks with New Zealand urged
(Xinhua)

Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Friday the free trade agreement (FTA) talks between China and New Zealand are of historic significance to bilateral ties and he expressed the hope the talks would be concluded at an early date. LINK

Tsang tells Rice: Rule of law, human rights intact
By Max Kong (HK Edition)

Hong Kong had maintained its rule of law, freedom, human rights and ensured a level playing field for business, Chief Executive Donald Tsang told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Sydney on Friday. LINK

APEC leaders hold talks with business leaders
(Xinhua)

Leaders of the member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) began a dialogue with business leaders from the region prior to their informal annual meeting on Saturday. LINK

Japan

Abe, Bush show united front on refueling mission
Japan Today

SYDNEY (Kyodo) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed Saturday on the importance of Japan's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean to support NATO-led antiterrorism operations, with Abe vowing to maximize efforts to continue the mission and Bush calling Japan's role "vital" and "necessary." LINK

APEC OKs 25% energy efficiency improvement goal by 2030

SYDNEY — Asia-Pacific leaders agreed Saturday to set an "aspirational goal" of improving the energy efficiency of output by at least 25 percent from the 2005 level by 2030 in a region-wide effort to tackle global warming. The leaders from the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum also agreed to pursue a regional goal of increasing forest cover in the APEC region by at least 20 million hectares of all types of forests by 2020. LINK

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