Kuala Lumpur, 19 July 2019 – The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit which Malaysia will be hosting in 2020, the second time the country hosts an APEC summit following the one in 1998, aims to humanise APEC to the public.
International Trade and Industry Ministry (MITI) deputy secretary-general (Industry) Datuk K Talagavathi said the event that will kick-off this December will bring over 16,000 delegates from 20 other economies of the globe.
MITI is the national secretariat for APEC 2020. It iwill comprise of 120 meetings accross six cities troughout the country.
“We would like to inform the public that APEC is not just about meetings but rather, it is about bringing people together and see how we all can collaborate towards a better tomorrow,”
Deputy Secretary-General of MITI, Datuk K Talagavathi
Other founding members of APEC are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.
The hosting of this event is a proud achievement as we will have the same prime minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to host and chair the APEC twice
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