Sellapan Ramanathan Quotes


You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us. - Sellapan Ramanathan


You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable. - Sellapan Ramanathan


Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence. - Sellapan Ramanathan


Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others. - Sellapan Ramanathan


We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN. - Sellapan Ramanathan


We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too. - Sellapan Ramanathan


The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it. - Sellapan Ramanathan


My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development. - Sellapan Ramanathan


In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed. - Sellapan Ramanathan


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