PHNOM PENH: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is playing a crucial role in boosting the Asean economic integration into the world economy, Cambodia's Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak said.

'The world's largest free trade agreement will bolster resilient, sustainable and inclusive economic growth in the region and resist the trend of anti-globalization and protectionism,' he said in a speech at the launch of a book titled 'RCEP: Part I: Geo-Political, Geo-Economic and Legal Analysis' in Phnom Penh recently.