Relaciones bilaterales de malasia (ingles)

RELACIONES BILATERALES DE MALASIA
America
Bilateral relations with both North and South America will increasingly be developed to identify opportunities for enhanced political consultations, trade and investment ties, opportunities for developing and sharing new technologies, particularly in the fields of Information Communication Technology and sustainable energy. Malaysia will focus onpromoting Malaysia’s trade, investment and tourism potentials and opportunities with countries in this region. In this regard, Malaysia will focus its marketing initiatives as a safe destination for investment.
Estados Unidos
The US offers immense potential for trade and investment. Efforts will be made to promote Malaysia as an excellent trade and investment destination. Despite differences on anumber of issues, ties between both countries will continue to be of special significance. Albeit, the US is the third most important trading and business partner of Malaysia with Malaysian exports exceeding US$25 billion per annum. Malaysia will continue to engage the US diplomatically to reduce friction and promote dialogue and understanding. Efforts will be made to promote high-level visits fromthe US and vice versa. The initiative is to ensure Malaysia’s views are well articulated in the US. Malaysia is looking forward to enhancing its bilateral relations and cooperation with the US under the new Democratic Administrations headed by Mr. Barack Obama.

Canada
Malaysia’s relations with Canada will be further enhanced for the mutual benefit of both countries. Malaysia is Canada’s biggesttrading partner in South East Asia and there is still much room for further growth in bilateral trade relations. The potential to attract more investments from Canada to Malaysia is also strong, which could be realised through the active promotion of Malaysia as an attractive and conducive business partner.

Latino America y el Caribe
Bilateral relations between Malaysia and Latin America andthe Caribbean countries will continue to be advanced, especially on matters related to South-South Cooperation. These relations will be further utilised to enhance economic, scientific, technical and business opportunities as well as to pursue issues of common interest and concern at the multilateral fora.
 
Malaysia needs to actively promote its expertise and technology in potential areas ofstrong economic interests. The Malaysian business community should also be encouraged to explore and actively pursue potential investments and trade opportunities, especially in sectors where Malaysia has a clear advantage such as palm oil plantation, infrastructure and ICT.

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam
The CLMV countries have always looked forward to establishing closer relations andcooperation with Malaysia especially in developing their economies, human capital and institutional capacities.
As such, Malaysia should capitalize on these positive gestures to make greater in-roads in broadening and deepening its relationship with these countries. In this regard Malaysia should enhance its cooperation to provide more training in specific fields under the MTCP.
Since the enactmentof the ‘doi-moi’ policy in 1986, Vietnam has become one of the most promising emerging markets in Asia. In 2007, Vietnam was the second fastest growing economy in the region after China with a record FDI influx of USD20.3 billion. As for 2008, until October, Vietnam received USD59 billion worth of investment. This increasing trend of FDI inflow reflects Vietnam’s potential of becoming a regionaleconomic player. At the same time, Vietnam regards Malaysia as a model for its development. It would be of benefit for Malaysia to pursue closer political, economic and socio-cultural relations with Vietnam for Malaysia’s future strategic interests.
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

Relations with countries in the South Pacific especially Australia has been improving and is set to grow...