KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said on Friday in a statement that there is a lot of confidence for the ASEAN region following a forum held in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh on Thursday. Foreign ministers were meeting to discuss ways of promoting connectivity, disaster management, finance and other issues for the region's continued growth. Countries's leaders spoke of the specific initiatives that they had undertaken in recent times, which include the initiative to address the threat of drug resistant malaria that has emerged, and security issues in the South China Sea. The statement from the Malaysian foreign ministry said Aman had told the forum that Malaysia was preparing the Plan of Action of Global Movement of the Moderates (GMM) which would contain detailed action to be undertaken at the national, regional and international levels with the Asean Secretariat. He said Malaysia had “established the GMM Foundation to identify National Focus Points which would spearhead GMM-related efforts and encouraged other EAS member states to do the same.”
