Now, we are traveling to Cambodia, as I said, to attend the East Asia Summit.
And looking ahead to the East Asia Summit, they addressed a range of issues, including maritime security.
It's a commitment that I'll reaffirm in Bali as the United States joins the East Asia Summit.
We last met at the East Asia Summit in Bali a year ago.
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Mrs Clinton repeated this during the East Asia Summit in Hanoi where Mr Kan and Mr Wen briefly met.
Thank you for your tremendous leadership, and that of Indonesia, as you host both ASEAN and the East Asia Summit.
Obama landing in Thailand on Sunday and will later visit Myanmar and attend the East Asia summit in Cambodia.
There are meetings -- the East Asia Summit and a meeting with the Association of the Southeast Nations -- that he'll participate in.
But there may be a whole host of other issues like that in which the East Asia Summit is probably the ideal venue.
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They briefly talked about the South China Sea and the East Asia Summit at the end of that -- because it was a short meeting.
And that was the genesis of the decision and why we are here at this meeting -- and the East Asia Summit is 18 countries.
Following the ASEAN meeting, that night there is a dinner for the East Asia Summit leaders and others who were in attendance for the summit.
Last year, those of you who came to Bali with us will recall the U.S. for the first time joined in the East Asia Summit.
As ASEAN chair, we have extended an invitation to President Obama to the East Asia Summit and the first ASEAN-U.S. Leaders Summit in October this year.
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Clinton used her speech at the East Asia Summit to again call for the establishment of an international legal mechanism through which to solve territorial disputes in Asia.
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We have important bilateral relationships -- important in their own right -- and we have important work to do with regional institutions such as ASEAN and the East Asia Summit.
Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to attend the East Asia Summit, a gathering of 10 Southeast Asian nations and other regional powers, such as China, South Korea and Japan.
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So I think the things to watch at the East Asia Summit are, first of all, what is the program of work that the leaders set for themselves in the course of 2013.
The Cambodia leg of the trip is mainly to attend the East Asia Summit, a sideline event being held after the 21st ASEAN Summit of Asian leaders, which opened in Phnom Penh today.
And I especially want to thank our Thai friends for being so supportive of our role in the East Asia Summit, which should be the premier forum for discussing regional challenges, including maritime security.
From Australia, the President will fly to Indonesia for the East Asia Summit , where he will hold bilateral meetings with a number of allies -- including the leaders of India, Thailand, and the Philippines.
The Asia-Pacific economic conference, as well as the East Asia summit -- these have to do with, very much, our capacity to trade, to increase our exports, to grow the economy here and create jobs.
Alongside the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement and U.S. participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the East Asia Summit, it will serve as a powerful statement of American engagement and staying power in East Asia.
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Japan and the United States are working with partners in the region to strengthen institutions and foster networks that are open, inclusive, and support internationally accepted rules and norms, including through fora such as the East Asia Summit (EAS) and APEC.
The two leaders reviewed a range of outstanding issues, including areas of cooperation upcoming in connection with the East Asia Summit, where they agreed to further bilateral and multilateral cooperation on nonproliferation, on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and also on maritime security.
The President looks forward to discussing preparations for the East Asia Summit and U.S.-ASEAN Summit, which will be held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei in October, and to consulting with His Majesty on a broad range of strategic and economic issues of mutual concern.
Following Burma, at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, the President will address a broad set of issues of concern to the Asia-Pacific Region -- from maritime security and law enforcement to disaster response and humanitarian assistance, development, infectious disease, education, food security, and energy.
This allows us to expand discussions not only on our bilateral relationship, which is strong, and the cooperation that we've seen on issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but it also allows us to discuss how we can best use the East Asia Summit to assure shared prosperity and shared security across the region.
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