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The Maldives Supreme Court on Monday annulled the results of the first round of mulberry handbags presidential election which was held on Sept. 7. In the first round of the presidential election, former president Mohammed Nasheed emerged as a winner. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court also ordered a new election on Oct. 20. Nasheed won the first round of presidential election with 45.45 percent of the vote but fell short of the 50 percent required to avoid a run-off. Abdulla Yameen, Nasheed's closest rival, gained 25 percent of the vote. But the Supreme Court later ordered the run-off vote be deferred amid the appeal by Qasim Ibrahim, resort tycoon and the second runner-up in the presidential election. Ibrahim has alleged electoral fraud. International discount michael kors observers monitoring the Maldives presidential election, including those from the United Nations and the Commonwealth, have termed the election as free and fair. Two people were killed and more than 92,600 people were affected because of flooding brought by continuous rains and thunderstorms due to intertropical convergence zone during the past days, a senior government official said Monday. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Eduardo del Rosario said the two victims, one of them a five-year old girl, drowned after they were swept by strong water currents in separate occasions both in central Philippine province of Antique. He said that a total of 18,828 families, or 92,658 people, from four regions in central and southern Philippines have been affected by the weather disturbance. Indonesia signed agreements with three countries on the sidelines of APEC Summit here on Monday, mulberry bags outlet Indonesia's Antara News Agency reported. Indonesia and Vietnam signed a plan of action on the implementation of a strategic partnership for the 2014 to 2018 period. The action plan, signed by Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh, contains detailed steps that will be taken by the two countries to achieve a strategic partnership. Marty Natalegawa and his PNG counterpart Rimbink Pat signed an action plan on the implementation of comprehensive partnership between the two countries. The two ministers agreed that with the signing of the action plan, steps toward the comprehensive partnership were clearer and more measurable. In addition, michael kors canadaIndonesia and Peru signed memorandums of understanding on agriculture and international agreement management cooperation and on the establishment of cooperation. The 21st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting began here on Monday with a APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) dialogue, which detailed what steps should be taken to spur global growth, a statement said. APEC leaders were urged to push ahead with their growth strategy to strengthen the global recovery despite continued unevenness in growth between economies by the Indonesian president ahead of their retreat here on Monday. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders meeting, themed "Resilient Asia-Pacific, mulberry bags Engine of Global Growth", kicked off here and included a leader's retreat, which was watched with keen interest. "We convene the APEC Leaders' meeting at a very critical juncture," said Yudhoyono who pointed to signs of an improvement in growth in many developed economies while emerging markets struggle to address an economic slowdown. "Such a situation should be carefully managed, otherwise it could weaken the momentum for recovery," Yudhoyono cautioned. This is especially the case in emerging economies, including Indonesia, he added. As a whole, APEC's 21 member economies account for 54 percent of global gross domestic product and are expected to grow 6.3 percent in 2013 and 6.6 percent in 2014, according to the International Monetary Fund. "In spite of the uneven pace of recovery, in the APEC region, the APEC economies continue to be the driving force for global growth," Yudhoyono said. "We should re-double our efforts torelogio michael kors sustain our resilience and maintain our role as the pillar and the safety belt of global growth." APEC economies are guided by the shared commitment to achieving the Bogor Goals for free and open trade and investment in the APEC region by 2020. This includes working together to further lower tariffs in the region, which have declined by nearly 70 percent since 1989, and greater collaboration to lower the cost of doing business across borders. "We have even greater opportunities for achieving more productive and larger trade and investment," Yudhoyono concluded. "To seize these opportunities, our region needs to be more interconnected and interlinked." Chinese President Xi Jinping, who also attended Monday's summit, warned against a world trade regime fragmented by various free trade arrangements, calling for determination to conclude the mulberry bayswater long- stalled Doha Round of global trade talks. On Tuesday, leaders will meet again and focus on connectivity in the evolving regional and international architecture and will issue a joint declaration by the end of their meeting. As the highest-level meeting of the APEC, the informal economic leaders' meeting has been held annually since its first convention in Seattle, the United States in November 1993. Last year's summit was convened in Vladivostok, Russia. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings include deliberations between the group's leaders and ABAC leaders who are drawn from the private sector of all APEC members. This time's session was chaired by an Indonesian Wishnu Wardhana, 2013 ABAC Chair. "The APEC Economic Leaders received direct input and recommendations from ABAC, who represents the business community in the Asia-Pacific region," the statement noted. In his speech, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono underlined that since APEC's establishment, the business has played a key role in the face of global economic challenges. The APEC Economic Leaders continued their discussions with the first session of the Leaders' Retreat. "The APEC Leaders discussed APEC's role in strengthening the multilateral trading system in the face of current global economic conditions." As chair of the meeting, President Yudhoyono stressed the importance of APEC's role in narrowing the development gap through supporting the multilateral trading system and the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) currently being pursued through the World Trade Organization (WTO). Meetings will continue on michael kors bags uk Tuesday with the second session of the Leaders' retreat, which will discuss the regional connectivity agenda. This will be followed by an informal discussion between APEC Leaders and leaders from the Pacific Islands, and will close with a working lunch, which will focus on achieving sustainable growth with equity in the Asia-Pacific region. China will take over as the Chair of APEC in 2014 at the conclusion of the two-day meeting with pledges to intensify links between political leaders and the private sector stakeholders. APEC's primary purpose is to facilitate economic growth and prosperity in the region.