Timely to consider upgrade for Asean-Japan free trade pact, says Singapore PM Lee

PM Lee Hsien Loong (second from left) and other leaders of Asean nations, except Myanmar, posing for a group photo with Japanese PM Fumio Kishida (centre) at a commemorative summit in Tokyo on Sunday, Dec 1, 2023. - PHOTO: REUTERS

TOKYO: Asean and Japan should redouble efforts to deepen economic cooperation, and it is timely to consider an upgrade of the trade pact between both sides, said Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday.

He also said an Asean-Japan Air Services Agreement, if concluded, would be mutually beneficial.