Asian nations have been pointedly excluding the US from regional meetings

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Rumsfeld to tell Asian nations don’t leave US out
(Reuters)

2 June 2006



SINGAPORE - US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will urge Asian nations at a security meeting in Singapore to resist attempts to exclude the United States from regional groupings.

As the US defense chief arrived in the city-state on Friday for the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, an aide said Rumsfeld would laud the inclusiveness of the forum in a region that has seen moves over the past year to leave Washington out in the cold.

“There are some efforts and systems that leave us out, and we obviously favor institutions that are inclusive rather than exclusive,” said a senior Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity. snip

Washington was uncomfortable with moves last year that pointedly excluded the Americans, including the holding of an East Asia Summit of leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations along with China, Japan and South Korea.

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