
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung poses for a
photo with Finance Ministers of the Asia Pacific Economic Forum in Hanoi
September 7, 2006. Hanoi hosted the 13th Finance Minister Meeting of the Asia
Pacific Economic Forum on September 7-8, 2006. Ministers in front from L-R:
Chile's Finance Vice Minister Maria Olivia Recart, Canada's Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty, Japan's Finance Senior Vice Minister Naokazu Takemoto, Malaysia's
Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Philippines' Finance Secretary Margarito
Taves, Vietnam's Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen
Tan Dung, South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and
Economic Kown Okyu, Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello and Vietnam's Foreign
Vice Minister Le Cong Phung. Back, from L-R: Brunei's Finance Minister Ibrahim
Pehin Dato Abd. Rahman, Singapore's Finance Second Minister Tharman
Shanmugaratnam, New Zealand's Finance Minister Michael Cullen, Hong Kong's
Financial Services and the Treasury Secretary Frederick Ma, Peru's General
Director of the Social and Economic Affairs Edgar Zamalloa, Russia's Finance
Vice Minister Sergey Storchak, Thailand's Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya, the
US Treasury Secretary Henrry Paulson, an unidentified man, Taiwan's Finance
Minister Chih Chin Ho and Mexico's Finance and Public Credit Minister Francisco
Gil Diaz. [Reuters]