Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak called for a plan to a new and moving vision “to realize its founding objectives” for the Asia-Europe Summit meeting (ASEM). He said as a group, it is vital for the members to accept that the balance of the world’s economy has shifted to advancing emerging markets.
“Concurrent with this trend, we need to accelerate the reform of multilateral institutions to reflect the new reality”.
PM Najib and many other leaders have attended the Eighth ASEM at Brussels on the 4th of October to discuss fundamental issues relating to the theme, ‘Quality of Life’.
He added that a “global movement of the moderates” of all faiths and efforts together as one was required to make it as a success. He claimed there was also a need to balance the rate of radical activities.
He also called for the global emphasis on inclination to moderate thinking. Najib also reiterated his statement at ASEM on Tuesday believing that the vocal and openness are the essentials for moderates in expressing their views.
Najib attended ASEM for the first time as Prime Minister, recognized the European Union’s (EU) “courageous and unprecedented steps” to guard any harm from occurring on eurozone with the severe economic downturn and risks surfacing from the monarch debt problems during the financial crisis which happened recently.
He also spoke on the New Economic Model (NEM) which is a testimony of Malaysia’s new way of thinking and philosophy in driving this country to a developed and high-income nation by 2020 that is ‘inclusive’ and ‘sustainable’.
Najib said continuous macro-economic observation, composed domestic macro-economic policies as well as regular regional and intra-regional consultation would help to detect undermine events and coordinate policy responses to resolve them.
“Improved cooperation and consultation between the governments of Europe and Asia is one way to ensure we are better prepared for the future.”
Back in Malaysia, Najib said it was a good forum for informal consultation and has given Malaysia a huge opportunity to send a very strong message that Asean and Asian were important to Europe and vice versa.
He arrived at the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, from Brussels accompanied by his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.
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