00:00How much of a priority do you use ASEAN seed and fruit trade agreement with Gulf states?
00:05Yeah, we, like I said, we now have seven ballot FTAs, we mean ASEAN, with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New
00:19Zealand, India and Hong Kong, China.
00:22And we're just about to conclude our FTA negotiation with Canada, the first country in North America.
00:32And the GCC, we agreed to already undertake a physical study.
00:36We had done the pre-physical study before, so now we're doing this.
00:41And we believe that there's great potential in terms of getting this region-to-region FTA moving ahead.
00:49Because at the moment we're also discussing this with the EU as well.
00:53And we just had our 25th ASEAN-EU ministry meeting, concluded just last month in Brunei, Jerusalem.
01:02So there's some good interest on both sides to look at a possible FTA between ASEAN and the EU.
01:09So I think it's important for us to be in mind that GCC still offers great potential as well for
01:14cooperation.
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