Malaysia to share Covid-19 experience, efforts at Asean-Japan virtual meeting

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will share its experience and efforts in mitigating the Covid-19 impact at the Asean-Japan digital meeting tomorrow.

Senior Minister and International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali will lead the Malaysian delegation at the meeting with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.

Azmin, to be accompanied by his deputy Datuk Lim Ban Hong, will share the government’s experience in combating the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 and protecting lives and livelihoods of Malaysians.

The ministry, in a statement today, the meeting hosted by Vietnam was set to take place to discuss Asean-Japan action plan in response to Covid-19.

This is pursuant to the “Asean-Japan Joint Statement on Initiatives on Economic Resilience Action in Response to Coronavirus Disease Outbreak” issued on April 22.

“Malaysia, regarded as one of the best in managing the Covid-19 impact, will share its experience and efforts, both in curbing the spread of Covid-19 and to put a balance onto the Malaysian economy.

“These would include the Penjana economic stimulus plan and Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) imposed by Malaysia that saw the opening of economic activities to keep the economy resilient, thus protecting the livelihood and well-being of Malaysians,” it said.

The ministry said the meeting would be an avenue for Malaysia through the Asean platform to forge closer collaboration and partnership with Japan and other regional countries.

“At the end of the meeting, the Ministers are expected to adopt the “Asean-Japan Economic Resilience Action Plan”.

“This would be an important mechanism to turn the collaborative decisions as envisioned in the “Asean-Japan Joint Statement on Initiatives on Economic Resilience Action in Response to Coronavirus Disease Outbreak” into concrete and tangible action plan,” it added.

Source: NST