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1986 Supplement 4 American Foreign Policy Current Documents [1] (1986)

handle is hein.forrel/afpdoc0042 and id is 1 raw text is: BEST COPY AVAILABLE THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary BACKGROUND BRIEFING By SENIOR AONINISTRAT.; )N OFFICIALS April 22, 1986 The Briefing Room 10:08 A.N. EST MR. DJZREJIAI: We'll proceed with our background briefing. Again, ON BACKGROUND, off camera, off sound, attributable to senior administration officials. For your lnforaatLonni ndonesla, and then we'll proceed to M for the bilaterals at Tokyo. SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I don't have any written statemnt to lead off with. I'll just mke a few coments about the trip and ASEAN. The President will be stopping, as you know, prior to his Tokyo summit attendance in Indonesia. He will be in Bali. While in Bali, he will have bilateral meetings with President Soeharto to discuss the full range of our relationship with Indonesia. And then he will.also be meeting with the ASEAN foreign ministers who will be in Bali at the same time that he's there. .And again, he will be discussing with them various issues that they consider to be important to them and also some of the things that he would like to discuss. I don't think I have to tell you too much about ASEAN. Relations between the U.S. and ASEAN are very good -- they're excellent. Thjs has been true through the last five administrations. -It's been a iodel, as far as we're concerned, of low-key encouragement and cooper tion. Collectively, ASEAN is o our fifth largest trading partner. Two-way trade has gone fr m $945 million in 1967 to $23.5 billion in 1985. O What was the first figure? SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALt $945 million. O What was the second? SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: $23.5 billion in '85 last year. Q What was the first year? SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALs '67. (M4ahter.) I ought to be able -- I ought to pass out some stuff here, actually. MR. DJEREJZANi I think you could use it for the rest of your briefing. (Laughter.) SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Those are good figures. I think those are very impressive figures. Anyhow, I chose how well I think the relationship has worked between us. So we're trying to work together with ASEAN against protectionism to keep our markets open. We have frequent

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