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Lee: Emulate Singapore in forging FTAs, BUSINESS TIMES
Business Times (Malaysia), September, 2001 by Dzulkarnain Taib
Business Times (Malaysia) 09-06-2001 SINGAPORE Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has urged Association of South- East Asian Nations (Asian) member countries to consider emulating the island's step in forging free trade agreements (FTA) with other countries. He said other Asian members should reap the benefits of "joint economic partnership".
"I think other Asian countries should consider and also have joint economic partnership," he told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur at the end of his four-day official visit to Malaysia yesterday. Asked on the proposed FTA between Singapore and Japan, the details of which are expected to be agreed upon this month, Lee said the move by Japan is also expected to encompass the region. "I believe it's a signal that it...
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