00:00Can you explain a bit on the economy diplomacy with the trust of foreign policy?
00:30We can see that Malaysia's backbone is the economy.
00:45Whether we like it or not, the Ministry of State must take our economic foreign policy as our second pillar
01:00to ensure that our representatives in the embassies will not only maintain the bilateral relationship
01:11but also focus on improving the bilateral economic relations between Malaysia and the countries.
01:21I mentioned earlier, Malaysia and the EU, the EU and the African Union.
01:29These two sectors are between countries.
01:32So, a new task has been added to our representatives, who are senior officials in government positions.
01:44We have a lot of A-level officials, B-level officials, or at least C-level officials.
01:52So, we want them to open the door to Malaysia's efforts to diversify our market.
02:00Because, as I said in the Parliament, we cannot rely on our traditional markets.
02:06We cannot rely on just one source, the market.
02:10We need to diversify.
02:12We need to be able to sell or trade our products all over the country or the world.
02:21Because if we rely too much on one traditional source,
02:25if anything happens to the country, we will be in a difficult situation.
02:32So, that's why we want to work together in BRICS.
02:37Not because of anything, but because of the economic factors.
02:41We want ASEAN-GCC to have the same economic factors.
02:45We want ASEAN-EU to have the same economic factors.
02:48ASEAN-Central Asia, the five seas, will also have the same economic factors.
02:53Because when our economy is good, we will be a prosperous country.
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