Asia-Pacific leaders support China-backed free trade 'roadmap'

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Asia-Pacific leaders support China-backed free trade 'roadmap'

BEIJING (AFP) - A summit of Asia-Pacific leaders supported a China-backed "roadmap" towards a vast free trade area, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit "approved the roadmap for APEC to promote and realise the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific", Xi said at the close of the Beijing meeting, adding the move "symbolises the official launch of the process towards the FTAAP".