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"As with previous sessions, the [NCAFP's] recent meeting provided important insight as to North Korea’s present perspective on a wide range of issues including prospects for denuclearization and economic reforms within the country. It was also helpful for the North Koreans to have opportunity to receive American input on the issues discussed and to be informed on North Korea matters pending before the Congress. Thanks as well for your own relentless commitment and ongoing contribution toward a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue."
-The Honorable Richard G. Lugar
U.S. Senator, Indiana (R)
November 2009
Project Director: Prof. Donald S. Zagoria
Assistant Project Director: Ms. A. Greer Pritchett
Project Associate: Samuel Hart
The National Committee on American Foreign Policy’s Forum on Asia-Pacific Security (FAPS) is dedicated to building peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific, one of the most geopolitically and economically important regions in the world. To achieve this goal, we currently run 5 Track II dialogues with some of the region’s most influential officials and policy experts on key security issues.
Track II dialogues are critical because they can open channels of communication and improve the quality of relations among adversarial parties on intractable issues. As Ambassador William Luers has stated, “The lack of understanding of the enemy has led to serious mistakes and missed opportunities in U.S. foreign policy.” In order to overcome this fundamental misunderstanding, our Track II projects are designed to foster deeper cooperation and trust among the region’s powers and help coordinate U.S. policy in the region. Our Track II projects on Asia-Pacific security include:
1. Improving U.S.-China and cross-Strait relations through dialogue between prominent officials and policy experts from the United States, China and Taiwan;
2. Exploring and building support for a cooperative, multilateral means of ensuring a denuclearized Korean Peninsula through dialogue between the U.S., North Korea and the other parties involved in the Six-Party Talks;
3. Strengthening the United States’ alliances with Japan and the Republic of Korea and adapting those alliances to the post-Cold War and post 9/11 era;
4. Promoting quadrilateral cooperation among the region’s strongest powers- the U.S., Japan, China and the Republic of Korea;
5. Reducing strategic mistrust between the U.S. and China through a U.S.-China strategic dialogue at the Track 1.5 level.
FAPS conducted its first Track II meetings in 1996 when it began dialogues with officials from the U.S., mainland China and Taiwan to reduce tensions and explore the prospects for peace in the Taiwan Strait. In 2003, we began the U.S.-DPRK project. We have hosted annual Track 1.5 meetings with delegations from the North Korean Foreign Ministry ever since. In 2005, we began the U.S.-Japan-ROK alliances Track II project which now includes an annual trilateral conference that takes place alternately in Tokyo and Seoul. In December 2009 we began a quadrilateral Track II project with representatives from the U.S., Japan, the ROK and China and our newest project, the U.S.-PRC Track 1.5 strategic dialogue, will convene its first official meeting in Beijing in May 2010 with another meeting to follow in New York at the end of the year.
FAPS currently maintains a robust schedule of Track II meetings with officials, former officials, scholars and policy experts on Asia-Pacific security. Our meetings take place throughout the year at our offices in New York and during our annual trip to the region, when we visit Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul. Below you will find a complete list of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security’s roundtable summaries, articles and publications.
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