00:00As wars and global crisis drag on and traditional multilateral bodies struggle to act,
00:06Prime Minister Dr. Sri Anwar Ibrahim says it is time for the global self to take the lead.
00:11He points to platforms such as ASEAN, BRICS and the Shanghai Corporation Organization
00:16as avenues for countries to safeguard their interests.
00:20He shares more in an upcoming exclusive interview with CGTN.
00:24And this initiative, Global Governance Initiative, means that that's what we want.
00:31And countries, you want to have a multilateral system in place
00:37where small and big countries are treated as equals and with respect.
00:44And of course there is human element there, correct values.
00:49And I said too that not many leaders in the world would be talking about civilisation,
00:56respect and feast for civilisation and shared prosperity.
01:02So we have the ASEAN initiative, we have the Chinese initiative and we have the BRICS and we have SCO.
01:09These are, I think, initiatives where we say, look, we can partly mitigate and redeem some of the contentious issues
01:22affecting us not only in terms of global politics, but also in terms of economic,
01:30to protect economic interests of these countries.
01:33Catch the full interview this Saturday, 13 September at 4.30pm on CGTN via Astro.
