SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday that he wants to see an Asia-Pacific Community by 2020 structured similar to the European Union.
Rudd said there was a "brittleness" in bilateral ties, and that while regional bodies like ASEAN and APEC had achieved much, there was a need for a region-wide architecture to tackle the growing challenges of the Asia-Pacific century.
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