00:00We are looking to see how we can work more with ASEAN partners and overall Indo-Pacific partners with issues
00:10like energy security.
00:13The European Union wants to speed up negotiations on a free trade agreement with Malaysia to strengthen its energy supply
00:20chain amid the crisis in West Asia.
00:23In an exclusive interview with FMT, EU Special Envoy to the Indo-Pacific Maria Castillo Fernandez said experience has pushed
00:31the EU to work more closely with ASEAN and Indo-Pacific partners on energy security.
00:38It's key that we look at more energy resilience.
00:42Europe knows about it because we had to diversify our energy sources because of the Russian war against Ukraine.
00:53So we had in a very short time to try to become more resilient and find other diverse ways of
01:02energy to get out of the dependencies on Russian energy sources.
01:09She said the EU has been supporting the ASEAN power grid project, which it sees as key to improving energy
01:16resilience across the region.
01:18Fernandez added that accelerating FTAs, including the EU's FTA with Malaysia, would support rules-based trade and make global supply
01:26chains more resilient.
01:27She also said Malaysia is already part of global production networks, especially in semiconductors, with European companies among those investing
01:36here.
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