B. whereas Malaysia is an active member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Unescap), the Colombo Plan promoting economic and social development in the Asia-Pacific region, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)), and the Brunei Darussalam- ...[+++]Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asian Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA); whereas Malaysia has also been a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since its establishment in 1995, and is a member of the Group of 77 (G77) developing countries, the Developing Eight (D-8), the G15 and the UN Human Rights Council (2010-2013), among others;

Q. whereas closer economic ties with Taiwan do not in any way contradict the EU’s ‘one China’ policy, given that China and Taiwan respectively joined the APEC in 1991 and acceded to the WTO in 2002;

L. whereas Taiwan has been a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) since 2002 and is also a full member of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Asian Development Bank;

In this context, and where relevant, the contribution by the activities of an EGTC that also has members from third countries neighbouring at least one Member State, including its outermost regions, to the objectives of Union external action policies, such as development cooperation or economic, financial and technical cooperation objectives, remains merely incidental, as the centre of gravity of the cooperation programmes concerned and consequently the activities of that EGTC should focus primarily on Union Cohesion Policy objectives.Consequently any development cooperation or economic ...[+++], financial and technical cooperation objectives between only one Member State, including its outermost regions, and one or more third countries are only ancillary to the cohesion policy-based territorial cooperation objectives between Member States, including their outermost regions.

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Certainly, the large, if somewhat amorphous, organisations set up to discuss trade issues (the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation – APEC – and, recently, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, as well as ASEM) have been useful especially as settings for informal high-level meetings and shows of solidarity.