BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in a titah underscored the importance of economic cooperation to the Asean-Australia relationship, in which the Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) continues to be the most comprehensive, high-quality and modern FTA in the region which has also served as a reference in negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to further expand trade and investment in the wider region.
He delivered the decree during a plenary session of the Asen-Australia Special Summit at Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre. Accompanying the Sultan was Prince ‘Abdul Mateen.
