PM: Government To Continue Negotiating CPTPP Terms
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Channel: 7Edition · 2018 · News & Politics
Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad stressed that the Government will continue to negotiate the terms of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) until it is satisfied that they will not be detrimental to the country. He said the government has scrutinised the agreement and found many things that are detrimental to Malaysia in efforts to develop the country. He was speaking during a dialogue at the Congress on the Future of Bumiputera and the Nation in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Tun Dr Mahathir said the government held two meetings with experts in the past two weeks to determine whether the CPTPP terms were good for the country. The CPTPP is a renegotiated trade deal borne out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPP after the US pulled from the TPP. (Soundbite of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad/Prime Minister Subtitle: We are a developing country but among CPTPP members there are developed nations. Between developing and developed countries, the terms will be unfair. And we need to give a special treatment to the weak. This is our stand and we will negotiate the terms so that it will not be deprimental to us.)
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