Second East Asia Summit - Second Summit

Second Summit

The Second EAS was to be held on December 13, 2006 in Metro Cebu, Philippines. After the confidence building of the First EAS the 2006 EAS was to intended help to define the future role of the EAS, its relationship with ASEAN Plus Three and the involvement of Russia in EAS. However in the face of Tropical Typhoon Utor the summit was postponed until January 2007. It has been re-scheduled for January 15, 2007, approximately a month after the original scheduled date.

The 16 countries involved were:

• John Howard
  Prime Minister of Australia

• Hassanal Bolkiah
  Sultan & Prime Minister of Brunei

• Hun Sen
  Prime Minister of Cambodia

• Wen Jiabao
  Premier of China

• Manmohan Singh
  Prime Minister of India

• Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
  President of Indonesia

• Shinzō Abe
  Prime Minister of Japan

• Bouasone Bouphavanh
  Prime Minister of Laos

• Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  Prime Minister of Malaysia

• Soe Win
  Prime Minister of Burma

• Helen Clark
  Prime Minister of New Zealand

• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
  President of the Philippines
  

• Lee Hsien Loong
  Prime Minister of Singapore

• Roh Moo-hyun
  President of South Korea

• Surayud Chulanont
  Prime Minister of Thailand

• Nguyen Tan Dung
  Prime Minister of Vietnam