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Muslim world should build own market, technology – Malaysian PM

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Muslim world should build own market, technology – Malaysian PM

Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad has called on the Muslim-majority countries to build their own markets and produce their own technologies to become self-sufficient.

Speaking at a forum during the ongoing Kuala Lumpur Summit, he stressed the importance of technological and industrial progress in national development.

“There are 1.7 billion Muslims. Obviously this is a big market if we decide to source our needs from Muslims and Muslim countries. Then we enrich ourselves.

“But because we [Muslim countries] have not enough products by ourselves, we have to source most of our needs from other countries, and our money flows out.

When money flows out, we become poor. But if we source, the things that we need from Muslim countries, then obviously our wealth will stay within the Muslim community, and we become richer,” he said.

“That is why among the things that should solve problems of Muslims is to build a market and produce the things and source them from each other but it is important we learn how to produce our own things,” he added.

He underlined that Muslim nations “will forever be playing catch-up” with the rest of the developed world “if we do not start creating and developing our own technologies.”

“We have no choice but to start working on this,” he said.

 ‘Learning from Turkey’

Praising development of the Turkish defense industry, Mahathir called for cooperation among Muslim-majority countries to become independent of the West.

“Turkey has gone very deeply into defense, into equipping itself with the defense equipment. And Malaysia is learning from Turkey,” he added, speaking alongside the Turkish and Iranian presidents.

“We are here to listen to ideas that can help us establish good governance and how to establish stability in our countries.

There is no doubt without stability there can be no development,” he replied to a question, adding that a strong economy was “vital for a country to remain independent”.

Mahathir, the world’s oldest serving head of any government, said that for growing a stronger economy “Muslim countries need stability”.

Mahathir maintained that cooperation among Muslim countries did not translate into boycotting non-Muslim nations.

“But if you source or sell things to non-Muslim countries, sometimes they sanction you [Muslim countries], and you lose what you need and you become helpless and they can apply more pressure,” he said explaining why Muslim-majority countries need to develop technologies to be independent.

“But if they apply pressure [when Muslim countries are self-sufficient], then that sanction would not work at all,” he said.

The three-day Kuala Lumpur Summit is ongoing in the Malaysian capital with the attendance of hundreds of government officials and representatives from civil society and business sectors from across the Muslim World.

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