Spotlight on Malaysia’s role in Asean and UN

THE Asean Summit will end tomorrow with Myanmar handing over the coming year’s chairmanship of Asean to Malaysia. This is our country’s fourth time in that seat, but what will be different in 2015 is that the role will partly overlap Malaysia’s membership in the United Nations Security Council, which is for the next two years.

Malaysia will thus be uniquely positioned to be an influential voice in regional and global affairs.