{"id":293043,"date":"2025-02-18T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=293043"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T07:26:33","slug":"asean-rejects-external-disruptive-pressures-says-malaysian-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=293043","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN Rejects External Disruptive Pressures, Says Malaysian Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), rejects external pressures that seek to disrupt the region, Malaysia&#8217;s Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, said here, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his closing remarks at China Conference: Southeast Asia 2025, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz stressed ASEAN&#8217;s neutrality and reaffirmed the right of its member states to develop on their own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zafrul noted that, the bloc must close ranks and prioritise its collective good, over any member&#8217;s ties to external powers or alternative groupings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emphasising the importance of maintaining ASEAN consensus, uniting member nations and speaking with one voice, he said, it is also important for ASEAN to actively engage with other economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Several ASEAN member states are warming up to BRICS, whether through membership or partnership. This is a development that all member states need to consider, in crafting their policies,&#8221; he said.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), rejects external pressures that seek to disrupt the region, Malaysia&#8217;s Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, said here, yesterday. In his closing remarks at China Conference: Southeast Asia 2025, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz stressed ASEAN&#8217;s neutrality and reaffirmed the right of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":293056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293055,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293043\/revisions\/293055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}