Malaysia wants to lead Asean in becoming cohesive, values-driven force, says PM

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Stronger economic integration, trade expansion and cross-border energy connectivity are key pillars of focus under Malaysia’s Asean chairmanship this year, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/7bawccc3   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00We have announced as far as our thrust of ASEAN leadership this year is of course to

00:11strengthen the cohesiveness, to increase interest and trade, to focus on the economy and investments

00:24among the countries. Then a specific program includes the ASEAN power grid which, alhamdulillah,

00:32have been quite successful. Petronas can be assigned with Petro-Vietnam and probably during

00:40one of the sessions both Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia will do it. Of course, the later

00:47phase, my land, there will be of course Laos, Cambodia, Thailand be involved. But at the

00:56first phase, of course, what is deemed to be more economic is to do the cable from Vietnam

01:04to North Malaya and South using the national grid into Singapore. Then of course Sarawak

01:14with its huge capacity for alternative energy, including gas and hydro, to go to Sabah and

01:22then to the new Indonesian capital in Kalimantan and to south of Philippines. This is of course

01:30something that needs to be explored and particularly more so because we have settled Petros, Petronas

01:36issue which you seem to be too excited about. I was more relaxed. Give it some time. Was

01:44wisdom and sanity would prevail.

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