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President Obama is back in Washington after a ten-day trip to Asia, his longest tripoverseas since he became president.
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It wrapped up over the weekend in Japan,where heattended APEC,the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation.
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This is a group of 21 membercountries,from Australia to Canada from China to Mexico to the US and their mission is to improve economies and help the AsiaPacific region to become more prosperous.
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No surprise, they talked about how the world economy is still hurting from the recession.
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And they acknowledged that it's still hard to say whether things are improvingwith so much uncertainty in its members' economies.
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APEC nations did agree to worktoward increased trade,though.
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And during the meeting,President Obama talked aboutsome other concerns as well.
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