Chairman of the Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) Committee Islamabad Ambassador Nguyen Tien Phong said that ASEAN is a symbol of economic development for the whole world including Pakistan.

In an interview with APP, he said that the ASEAN has established excellent economic and trade relations with the whole world, which is likely to improve further in the future.

He said that according to the vision of ASEAN, these economic relations are to further strengthen economic and trade integration in the world, from which the rest of the countries including Pakistan can also get benefits.

The Ambassador said that today the economic volume of the ASEAN countries has exceeded 3.3 trillion dollars, which is likely to improve further in the near future.

He said that Pakistan's trade volume with ASEAN countries is 11 billion dollars which needs to be increased.