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Fri, 11/28/2008 - 21:23
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APA ACCEPTS INDONESIAN PROPOSAL ON ECONOMY
Jakarta, Nov 28 (ANTARA) - President of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA), Agung Laksono, said that the Indonesian proposal on the creation of a new global financial system had drawn a positive response from participants of the third plenary meeting of the APA.
"The Indonesian idea has been approved by all participants and is waiting for formulation for inclusion in the list of APA resolutions," he told newsmen here on Friday.
On the issue of strengthening the economy to meet the current crisis most of the Asian countries already shared a common view, he said.
Laksono who is also the Indonesian House of Representatives speaker, said all APA meeting participants had been enthusiastic to build an Asian spirit to face the current crisis.
He said the Asian countries had a big potential to become a new world leader referring to its large population and abundant natural resources.
Regarding current global financial system Agung said that it proved to be vulnarable and no longer fit to respond to various current international problems.
Indonesia views Asia has to consolidate its strength so that it could participate in determining the world's financial system because it has the world's largest foreign exchange reserve, he said.
He said according to Indonesia Asian countries had to increase investment and trade among them without having to halt the relations that they have developed so far with countries in other regions.
Agung admitted that it was not easy to develop a common vision among Asian countries in view of the challenges and differences that exist.
Emphasizing the difficulty he referred to the case of Asean establishment. He said it took more than 30 years to unite countries in Southeast Asia into the Association of Southeast Nations (Asean).
"Even on the Gaza Strip issue we have very diverse views not to mention energy and other issues," he said.
On resolutions that the APA will produce in the current third plenary meeting he said that the most important thing was the implementation.
Whatever it would be it must be able to be implemented by member countries as without active participation of the executive any resolution will be useless, he said.
"The Indonesian idea has been approved by all participants and is waiting for formulation for inclusion in the list of APA resolutions," he told newsmen here on Friday.
On the issue of strengthening the economy to meet the current crisis most of the Asian countries already shared a common view, he said.
Laksono who is also the Indonesian House of Representatives speaker, said all APA meeting participants had been enthusiastic to build an Asian spirit to face the current crisis.
He said the Asian countries had a big potential to become a new world leader referring to its large population and abundant natural resources.
Regarding current global financial system Agung said that it proved to be vulnarable and no longer fit to respond to various current international problems.
Indonesia views Asia has to consolidate its strength so that it could participate in determining the world's financial system because it has the world's largest foreign exchange reserve, he said.
He said according to Indonesia Asian countries had to increase investment and trade among them without having to halt the relations that they have developed so far with countries in other regions.
Agung admitted that it was not easy to develop a common vision among Asian countries in view of the challenges and differences that exist.
Emphasizing the difficulty he referred to the case of Asean establishment. He said it took more than 30 years to unite countries in Southeast Asia into the Association of Southeast Nations (Asean).
"Even on the Gaza Strip issue we have very diverse views not to mention energy and other issues," he said.
On resolutions that the APA will produce in the current third plenary meeting he said that the most important thing was the implementation.
Whatever it would be it must be able to be implemented by member countries as without active participation of the executive any resolution will be useless, he said.
