Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is scheduled to visit the United States and meet with President Joe Biden next month for bilateral talks.
The source said that Srettha will attend the Asia Pacific Economic Leaders Meeting (APEC) in San Francisco, scheduled for November 15-17, and hold side-line meetings with APEC leaders, including Biden and leaders from 22 other economies. Both men met previously in New York, during the United Nations General Assembly in late September.
This year the US is chairing the APEC leaders’ meeting, on the theme of “Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All.”
APEC is a regional economic forum, established in 1989 to promote trade in the Asia-Pacific region. As host, Washington views APEC as the premier platform on which to advance economic policies in the region, to promote free, fair and open trade and investment and to advance sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
APEC countries account for nearly 40% of the global population and nearly 50% of global trade. For the US, its members are the destination for well over 60% of U.S. exports.
Furthermore, as of 2020, the APEC members have invested nearly US$1.7 trillion and employ 2.3 million American workers. Last year, in Bangkok, APEC leaders adopted a leaders’ statement outlining their successes and mutual cooperation in the future. Thailand succeeded in imbedding the bio-circular-green economic models into the APEC work programs.
