At a joint press conference with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday (Feb 11), Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said as the current Asean chair, Malaysia had proposed that Turkiye be included as an Asean dialogue partner.
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00:00The position that we take is, of course, to enhance collaboration, of course, bilaterally
00:07with Turkey, but as alluded to in the earlier discussion, we have dialogue partners, ASEAN
00:18other than countries in Asia, but also Canada, EU, and therefore there has been a call for
00:27the agency to expand this, and I've consulted and discussed this with the Minister of Foreign
00:35Affairs, Malaysia, to ensure that we bring it up to the heads of government of ASEAN
00:43to ensure that there is adequate participation, to be treated fairly as we have treated some
00:51other countries, including EU and Canada, New Zealand and Australia, for example, other
00:58than India and China, Japan and Korea, to expand this at least as dialogue partners,
01:05Turkey as dialogue partner for ASEAN, and this will be given priority in our discussions.