The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, an international forum bringing together 21 leading economies of the world for cooperation on trade and economic development of the region, was held in Peru’s Lima on November 19-20 . The APEC summit closed with a joint pledge to work toward a sweeping new free trade agreement that would include all 21 members. This year's APEC summit - in a gallery by TASS.
APEC summit 2016 in pictures
The APEC summit closed in Peru with a joint pledge to work toward a sweeping new free trade agreement that would include all 21 members
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key after posing for an official photo at APEC summit in Peru
© AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin
© APEC press office via AP Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korea's Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Juntong, US President Barack Obama and Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde and Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
© EPA/Ernesto Arias US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference at the end of the APEC Summit in Lima
© EPA/ERNESTO ARIAS China's President Xi Jinping
© Mikhail Klimentyev/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS US President Barack Obama, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chile's President Michelle Bachelet
© AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Barack Obama speaking at a town hall with Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative in Lima
© AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg observes Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski who tries a virtual reality artifact at the stand of Facebook at APEC summit in Lima
© EPA/PABLO PORCIUNCULA/POOL A rally against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Lima. As leaders of the APEC met in Lima, dozens of people rallied against the TPP, a proposed trade agreement among twelve of the Pacific Rim countries
© AP Photo/Esteban Felix