11. Dialogue partners talk regularly on a full range of economic, political and other issues. 12. For one thing, Asean is worried it could serve as a precedent for other dialogue partners. 13. He said his main North Korean dialogue partner will be Kim Yong Sun, a close confidant of the North Korean leader. 14. His audience was the nine members of ASEAN, plus its dialogue partners, which gather annually to discuss regional and global security issues. 15. However most, if not all, see him as a more constructive dialogue partner than the Major government. 16. In public statements in Singapore, the dialogue partners made it clear that their long-standing concerns had not softened. 17. India has recently been made a full dialogue partner of the Asian trade body. 18. It does not consider the pro-Western South a dialogue partner, calling it a U.S. puppet. 19. It was clear that the dialogue partners found the Malaysian proposal workable. 20. Its dialogue partners include the United States, Japan, China, Russia and the European Union. |