KUALA LUMPUR: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat executive director Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria is optimistic that the First APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM1) and related meetings will deliver and achieve its goals.
The SOM1 and related meetings will be held in Putrajaya from Feb 3-22, 2020.
In an interview featured on the APEC Secretariat’s website, she said the secretariat would also ensure that previous initiatives which had come to fruition would be continued and sustained.
“As far as APEC is concern, there is a political will to ensure that we have some concrete deliverables.
“We want to be able to tell the world that regional economic integration is important, that we must work together to ensure that the global economy keeps growing so that we can all benefit from international trade and inclusive economic growth, specifically,” Rebecca added.
Close to 1,500 policymakers, business leaders and academics from 21 APEC member economies will gather next week to deliberate and advance a policy agenda for the region’s most pressing issues in the digital era, including multilateralism, trade and investment, human capital development and sustainability. – Feb 01, 2020, Bernama.
