KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asian countries aim to sign a free trade pact with Japan in November, and will try to remove obstacles in the negotiations at a ministerial meeting in Brunei this week, an official said Thursday.
Ong Keng Yong, secretary-general of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said the bloc's economic ministers and their Japanese counterpart would discuss ways to free trade in goods during talks Friday.
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