Establishment1
In January 1989, Australian Prime Minister Hawk raised the proposal of having a ministerial meeting2 on the economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region during his visit to Seoul3, Republic of Korea. After talks with relevant4 countries, the first ministerial meeting was held in Canberra,capital of Australia from 6 to 7, November 1989. Foreign Ministers and Economic Ministers from Australia, the United States of America, Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Brunei, Indonesia, Malay- sia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand attended the meeting. Thus Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was set up. On 20 and 21 November 1993, the first APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting was held in Seattle, the United States of America. Chinese President Jiang Zemin attended this meeting for the first time and he raised the spirit of “mutual respect, mutual benefit, mutual opening and mutual development”.
Members
21 Members include Australia; Brunei; Canada; Chile; People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Mexico; Malaysia; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Russia; Singapore; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; United States; Viet Nam.
Objectives5
In November 1991, the 3rd APEC Ministerial Meeting in Seoul issued6 the Seoul APEC Declaration that set the objectives of “interdependence and common interests, to develop and strengthen the open multilateral trading system and reduce regional barriers to trade”.
成立
1989年1月，澳大利亚总理霍克在韩国汉城访问的时候,提出了召开亚太地区经济合作部长级会议的建议。经过有关国家的协商，第一次部长级会议于1989年11月6日至7日在澳大利亚首都堪培拉举行。来自澳大利亚、美国、加拿大、日本、韩国、新西兰、文莱、印度尼西亚、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡和泰国的外长和经济部长出席了会议。亚太经合组织就这样诞生了。1993年11月20日至21日，第一次APEC首脑会议在美国西雅图举行。中国国家主席江泽民第一次出席会议，在会上江泽民提出了“互相尊重、互惠互利、共同开发、共同发展”的思想。
成员
21个成员包括：澳大利亚、文莱、加拿大、智利、中华人民共和国、中国香港、印度尼西亚、日本、大韩民国、墨西哥、马来西亚、新西兰、巴布亚新几内亚、秘鲁、菲律宾、俄罗斯、新加坡、中国台北、泰国、美国和越南。
目标
1991年11月，在汉城举行的第三次APEC部长级会议发表了APEC汉城宣言，确定了“相互依存，互惠互利，发展和强化开放的多边贸易体系，减少贸易壁垒”的APEC目标。
1．establishment n．成立
2．ministerial meeting 部长级会议
3．Seoul n．汉城
4．relevant adj．有关的
5．objective n．目标
6．issue v．发表