“Jurin” leads the APEC Trade Minister to close the meeting, hoping that Thai will move forward to the FTA

Thairath Online

22 May 2022 23:09

Super bang! “Jurin”, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce ledAPEC Trade MinisterClosing the meeting beautifully All nations applaud Thailand for moving forward FTA APEC to succeed

On May 22, 2022, at 2.30 p.m., Mr. Jurin Laksanawisit, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce Revealed the results of the APEC Ministers’ Meeting (Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting (MRT), together with Mr. Bunyarit Kalayanamit, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Mrs. Oramon Sapthaweetham. Director-General of the Department of International Trade Negotiations Mr. Phusit Rattanakul Sereeruengrit Director-General of the Department of International Trade Promotion and Mr. Thani Thongphakdi, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Convention Room B2, 22nd floor, Centara Grand at CentralWorld

Mr. Jurin said that the overview of the APEC meeting that Thailand has hosted over the past 2 days, including today as chairman of the meeting Thailand has expressed its appreciation for APEC trade ministers from all 21 economic zones, including the APEC Business Advisory Council. Also known as ABAC (APEC Business Advisory Council), and all attendees demonstrated the commitment of APEC members to drive and set direction through their vision. and diverse perspectives in driving economic recovery to overcome the COVID-19 crisis together, including promoting sustainable economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the main theme of the 2022 APEC Meeting that Thailand has set up under the vision “Open, create relationships, connect to balance” or “Open. Connect. Balance”

However, the results of the APEC meeting that Thailand is hosting today Considered a magnificent success Because the main topic set by Thailand, the host, whether it is “Open. Connect. Balance”, is in accordance with the goals and achieves concrete results from the opinions of the meeting and that will happen in the future. Open is openness and liberalization of trade between each other. The concrete result that all economic zones can agree on is that we will bring APEC. to the establishment of FTAAP (Free Trade Area of ​​the Asia-Pacific) in the future

For Connect or the link between economic zones, both in terms of people or goods and services. A working group has been set up called APEC Safe Passage Task Force to continue this matter to achieve more concrete results and the word Balance or create balance. There was consensus in all participating economies to focus on balancing the environment. Energy and participation of all parties at all levels From large people to small people, at the level of SMEs and Micro-SMEs, workers, disadvantaged people, vulnerable groups, women and others.

In addition, another signal that reflects Thailand’s success is the fact that all economic zones have accepted and supported the BCG Model (Bio-Circular-Green Economy) of Thailand as an important vision to drive the economy of the APEC economic zones. future

This meeting was once once more. As has sometimes happened in the past, the meeting was unable to issue a joint statement of the APEC meeting. However, all this There will be results in the form of a statement or statement of the chairman of the APEC meeting, namely Thailand, in the form of a chair statement instead, which has assigned relevant officials to carry out the draft. All parties involved are invited to participate in the drafting and will be officially announced in the form of documents.

Although this meeting did not issue a joint statement. But Thailand is considered successful and Thailand respects the opinions of all economic regions. Thailand is also ready to work with APEC strongly. To achieve goals such as the establishment of the FTAAP, the support of multilateral trade including the WTO, and the handshake to move forward in coexistence with COVID and the future. A joint statement can be made when all 21 economic zones have a consensus, which is known as a consensus. It is known that Due to inconsistencies in the current global situation, all economic zones agree on a joint statement. But there is a part of the content that is inconsistent. Some economic zones disagree. It was the source that made it impossible to issue a joint statement.

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