We, the ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, convened the joint Meeting of the ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors under the co-chairmanship of H.E. Dato’ Seri Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah, Finance Minister II of Malaysia, H.E. Tan Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia.
We, the ASEAN Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors together with the ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General, expressed our gratitude to the Honourable Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, for meeting us at Perdana Putra, Putrajaya.
We maintain our commitment to strengthen economic growth and promote financial stability in the ASEAN region, amid uncertainties in the external environment. We exchanged views with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) on the economic outlook, risks, opportunities and policy challenges facing our region, in an effort to foster sustainable and inclusive growth. 4. We remain committed to achieving the goals of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. We supported the activities under the Roadmap for Monetary and Financial Integration of ASEAN. In particular, we affirmed our commitment to develop plans for post 2015 ASEAN financial integration that will be built upon our agreed broad framework. The Working Committees will further develop implementation plans accordingly by the end of this year.
