Malaysia to leverage Asean chairmanship to resolve South China Sea issues

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Malaysia plans to leverage its chairmanship of the upcoming Asean summits next year to resolve outstanding South China Sea issues, Deputy Defence Minister Adly Zahari told the Dewan Rakyat on Monday (Oct 21).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/22anfxey  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00We know that our priority in the South China Sea is under the Ministry of Defence.

00:07Three important aspects of our implementation that we give priority are our readiness and our asset modernisation.

00:17We know that the most important process when we face the South China Sea is to see how we can improve the asset modernisation.

00:29Therefore, if we look at the Parliament itself, we talk a lot about asset management.

00:36That is one of the most important things for us.

00:39The second is our operations.

00:41We are not afraid that, as we mentioned earlier about our short of presence,

00:46so we always improve our operations from time to time.

00:50And the third is we strengthen our defence diplomacy.

00:54As Mr. Jelebu said, we did go through the ASEAN Defence Ministerial Meeting.

01:02We said that through ASEAN, we also try to strengthen the cooperation between ASEAN and ADMM+.

01:10So that we know that the issue in the South China Sea is not only related to Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and so on,

01:18but the whole of ASEAN countries are also related to the South China Sea.

01:23Therefore, we also use our ASEAN platform in the coming year as ASEAN Chairman.

01:30So we will take advantage of it to solve some rising issues,

01:34including as Mr. Prime Minister said, how we take advantage of UNPLAUS itself.

01:43Because we know that the most important thing for us in the South China Sea is the process

01:49of how we can continue our economic activities safely for our fishermen.

01:55And at the same time, we know that sea trade is a safe area in the South China Sea for all of our economic activities.

02:04That is one of the answers.

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