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The Director General
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2010
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NOTE TO MR. MARC V ANHEUKELEN
HEAD OF CABINET OF COMMISSIONER DE GUCHT
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Subject:
Enhancing EU-Indonesia trade and investment relations
This note suggests that the Commissioner launches an EU-Indonesia "vision group"
tasked to bring forward the EU Indonesia trade agenda, at the occasion of his meeting
with Indonesian Trade Minister Pangestu in Da Nang in August.
Background:
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and European Commission President
Jose Manuel Barroso in December 2009 agreed that trade and investment was an area
where the bilateral relationship had great potential to develop, and on the need to explore
ways to strengthen these ties. The two leaders decided to set up a "Vision Group" that
would examine how to increase trade and investment between Indonesia and the EU.
This project, very much inspired by the Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Pangestu, is in
line with the positive political climate created by the partial resolution of the air ban and
the consequent signing of the PCA.· [Art. 4.1.a]
This comes against the backdrop of a number of recent positive signals which we
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received fom Jakarta on what seems to be a change of attitude in the Indonesian
Government on the opportunity of an Agreement with lhe EU (the local industry,
represented by lhe Indonesian Chamber of Commerce or Kadin, already expressed its
support earlier this year). The Vice Minister for Trade Mahendra Siregar expressly
mentioned this possibility during a meeting with you in April and other high ranking
Indonesian officials now also seem more open to move in this direction.
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