00:01Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his Thai counterpart Anutin Chanvirakul
00:08met in Putrajaya on Thursday, resolving a fisheries dispute that had disrupted
00:13seafood trade between the two countries in recent months.
00:17In May, Thailand restricted imports of Malaysian sea bass over concerns about chemical residues.
00:23Malaysia responded last month with a temporary ban on some Thai shrimp varieties,
00:27citing food safety controls.
00:30And we have resolved this issue of outstanding issues of fisheries with both ministers' commitment
00:39and they wanted the memorandum to continue and be affected in one and a half month
00:45and we agreed it should be affected in one week.
00:49Anutin is on a two-day visit to Malaysia aimed at strengthening economic ties
00:53and resolving long-standing border issues between the two Southeast Asian neighbours.
00:57The two leaders also agreed to move forward on developing a special border economic zone
01:02and to ease immigration and customs procedures between the countries.
01:07They witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on agricultural cooperation.
01:12On Friday, the two Prime Ministers are set to travel to Kadar to jointly open a new border crossing
01:18connected to Thailand's customs and immigration complex in Sadao, Songkhla province.
01:24The visit comes amid renewed security concerns, following a recent spike in violence linked to the decades-old separatist insurgency
01:32in Thailand's southern provinces.
01:33I inform Premier Anwar that ending violence and addressing the challenges in Thailand's southern border provinces remains a top priority
01:45for my government.
01:47Today, we reaffirm our shared conviction that peace and development must go hand in hand.
01:53Peace creates the conditions for development, while development helps build lasting peace.
02:03Two Malaysians were injured in a roadside bomb in Narathiwat's Takbay district in late June,
02:08prompting both countries to tighten border security measures.
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