Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Philippines Dr. Imtiaz Ahmad Kazi said on Wednesday he would push for the inclusion of Pakistan in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to boost trade with the Philippines and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
“In 2008 we had comprehensive economic partnership agreements with Malaysia, Indonesia. We also had similar arrangement in 2016 when I was director general of East Asia Pacific countries in foreign office — we were negotiating with Thailand, free trade agreement, we already have with China also, but I think most important in these days is what has been accomplished last year in November, which is the RCEP agreement between 15 countries — Asean plus 5 — and I’m going to recommend Pakistan to become part of that. Once we are in that group, automatically we will have all the Asean related tariff reductions as well as between all the 15 countries,” said Kazi during a roundtable with The Manila Times.
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