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With the Australians out of the picture, top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice took the stage by storm with a piano recital of a Brahms sonata, titled a Prayer for Peace.

Rice, wearing a red dress and pearls, was in a sombre mood after her crisis trip to the Middle East and decided to stick to the concert-grade piano skills she mastered at college.

New Zealand's Winston Peters, who earlier told the meeting that Maori people were really descended from Chinese, sang a Johnny Cash-meets-reggae version of Oh Islands in the Sun.

China's Li Zhaoxing led a choir and South Korea's Ban Ki-moon donned green sequins for a version of Abba's Mamma Mia.

Canada's Peter MacKay, dressed in black referee's uniform, presided over a mock ASEAN versus Canada football match that ended with a Zinedine Zidane head-butt and a red card.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso took top honours in the bizarre stakes with a Humphrey Bogart impersonation set amid a global pandemic of giant furry frogs.

Aso wore a trench coat and hat and puffed on a cigarette while his minions hopped on stage in frog outfits or dressed as fish, a Power Ranger, or mutant lobster.

A creature called Aso's Assistant Robot also put in an unexplained appearance.

The skits are a regular feature of a gala dinner for the ASEAN foreign ministers and the major powers with which they hold talks every year.

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