Hanoi, (VNA) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for accelerating negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to create the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).
Beijing is open to any regional trade agreement that benefits regional economic integration and free trade, he was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying at a news conference after the fourth China-Australia Strategic and Diplomatic Dialogue in Canberra on February 7.
According to Wang Yi, among regional and subregional cooperation mechanisms in Asia-Pacific, some are making good progress while others have lost momentum, but either the RCEP or TPP or any other regional arrangement isa possible path to the broader FTAAP.
He urged relevant sides to speed up talks on the RCEP to achieve the common goal of creating FTAAP.
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