So when Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong proposed an Asia-Europe summit, the suggestion won immediate endorsement from the late President Mitterand of France and from Chancellor Kohl of Germany. At the enlarged session of the annual ASEAN ministers 'conference in Brunei in July 1995, and at the high-level preparatory talks for the ASEM in Madrid in December 1995, officials from both groups held consultations about the summit agenda.
所以當新加坡總理吳作棟提議召開亞歐高峰會時，立刻獲得已故法國總統密特朗和德國總理柯爾的贊成，接著一九九五年七月在汶萊舉行的東協部長年會和擴大會議以及十二月在馬德里舉行的亞歐會議高級會議上，雙方官員就亞歐高峰會的議題進行協商。