As the G20 summit wrapped up this weekend in Washington, international summit watchers now turn their attention to Lima, Peru where Leaders Weeks begins tomorrow for APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Prime Minister Stephen Harper will travel to Lima on Friday for meetings there next Saturday and Sunday.
As the host country, Peru is ramping it up from a security standpoint as it prepares to host the heads of state from 21 national economies including Canada, the U.S., Japan, China, Australia, Indonesia, and all the rest which have, as their common heritage, some shoreline on the Pacific Ocean. More than 10,000 Peruvian soldiers, sailors and air force personnel have been deployed to secure the meeting site, all under the command of Colonel Alberto Castillo.
The delegations (which, in Canada's case, includes travelling media) will be staying in Miraflores, San Isidro, Lima and San Borja — all of which you'd say would be part of Greater Lima, which has a population of 9.2 million.