Australia Premier Morison Willing Support Thailand Lead RCEP to Success.
28-6-2019— During the bilateral discussion before attending G20 meeting in Osaka this morning, Australian Prime Minister Mr.Scott Morison accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Prayut ChanOcha to have official visiting to Thailand and unveiled that he willing to support Thailand in leading RCEP negotiation to completion, considered that RCEP will help solving impacting problem from US-China trade war.
Premier Paryut ChanOcha has the bilateral discussion with Prime Minister of Australia Srates, Mr.Scott Morison today at 9 am at NARA-NO-MA 1 room, Osaka Hilton Hotel, before attending G20 meeting.
Vice Spokesman of Prime Minister Office General Weerachon Sukontapatipark unveiled that both sides are pleased to be elected as prime minister, ready to confirm to strengthen cooperation in all dimensions both bilateral and multilateral and willing to regularly exchange high-level visits
This opportunity, Prime Minister Prayut reiterated the invitation of the Prime Minister of Australia to visit Thailand on convenient occasions, which will be the first official visiting Thailand of the Australian Prime Minister in 21 years.
Thailand and Australia pleased that over the past 14 years, the Thai-Australia Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) has been successful, causing the trade value to rise continuously to 3.5 times
Thailand and Australia are concerned about the trade war between the US-China and closely monitor the situation and saw that the RCEP cooperation framework is a mechanism that helps solve problems and mitigate the effects. Therefore had to accelerate to have the RCEP negotiation completed by which Australia is willing to help drive negotiations.
As the president of ASEAN Thailand is ready to cooperate with G20. Australia can cooperate with Thailand as a member of the G20 and an important dialogue partner of ASEAN to strengthen cooperation between the two frameworks in concrete ways.
The Prime Minister hopes that he will be able to build upon concrete discussions in the G20 stage before the 35th ASEAN Summit later this year.
The Prime Minister is pleased that both countries have long-standing military cooperation, by which Thailand is ready to intensify cooperating with Australia such as anti-terrorism, surveillance of extremist extremism, prevention and suppression of transnational crimes especially the illegal drug trafficking and human trafficking
Thailand is pleased that Australia responds to join as a development partner and hopes that Australia will consider supporting the urgent program under the ACMECS Master Plan in the areas in which Australia has expertise.
At the end, the Prime Minister mentioned the success of The 34th ASEAN Summit, especially in promoting sustainability strategies in all dimensions, creating a concrete partnership with the region and the world community
ASEAN has adopted an ASEAN perspective on the Indo-Pacific concept, by focusing on cooperation that benefits all parties and concrete which the Australian Prime Minister Welcome to consider activities that can cooperate and may be presented at the ASEAN meeting later this year.
