(Mr. Hidetoshi Nishimura, Executive Director, ERIA, delivered a speech at the Welcome Dinner. )

The 24th Asia Pacific Roundtable (APR) hosted by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia was held from 7 to 9 June 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The meeting brought together some of the region's most prominent scholars and policymakers. In the meeting, Dato' Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia delivered a keynote address and the participants discussed a broad range of strategic issues and challenges in the region which included the rise of China, Asia Pacific's regional architecture, Japanese foreign policy, political developments in Myanmar and the security situation in the Korean Peninsula.