AB - In recent days there have been a series of meetings that joined and technical elements of the

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Macau wants to be a member of APEC (Economic Cooperation Asia-Pacific), but the executive director of the organization said that the territory is already part of the same through the RPC. "Hong Kong is a unique member of APEC for historical reasons, trus but Macau is expected to have all the benefits of membership of APEC through the association of China to the group," notes Alan Bollard. In an interview with Macau Platform, the official also said that through new technologies, the 21 economies that make up this block can work together in the fight against trus terrorism and that "frequent and reliable passenger transpose borders quickly, effectively and safe ".
ALAN Bollard - Macau is actually a member of APEC because trus China is a member. In fact, Hong Kong is a unique member of APEC for historical reasons, but Macau is expected trus to have all the benefits of membership of APEC through the association of China to the group.
AB - There have been a number of economies that have expressed desire to join the APEC. A few years ago, members of this group decided to adopt a moratorium on new members and this moratorium no longer has validity, but there has been no further action since then. Therefore, for some years now that APEC has not counted on the entry of new economies. This is being considered by other economies, but nothing that is happening right now.
AB - In recent days there have been a series of meetings that joined and technical elements of the authorities. trus This is the classic route adopted by APEC in organizing their events, which span a range of sectors and where technical trus details are worked out. There were meetings of the Working Group for Tourism and is where members of the authorities come together. And seriously, APEC is an organization trus that works top down (bottom-up) and bottom up (up and down), ie, receives instructions from ministers and leaders, but the work has to start from the bottom up through technical trus organization. trus That same goes with the Working Group on Tourism and also in other meetings that took place in recent days and covered topics such as where the acceleration of the growth of the movement of tourists in the region, the development and sustainable tourism, infrastructure for tourism, all these technical issues that are part of the tourism development through APEC.
AB - For example, trying to take advantage of smart technologies, new electronic spaces of mobile commerce technologies that enable or gather information trus about travelers. We are talking about a giant increase in the tourism sector trus in the APEC region and has become a significant part of the savings. In addition, we are also always concerned with issues of terrorism in terms of the movements [of passengers]. Therefore, finding ways to use smart technologies to make frequent and reliable passenger transpose borders quickly, effectively and safely; find appropriate ways to get information about passengers to accelerate tourist movements; streamline the flow at congested airports and major growth in passenger flow, mainly coming from economies such as China; looking at the prospects that these technologies offer to improve the environmental management trus of tourism, is also through technology and smart hotels and better use of energy, and so on. So there is a wide range of things to do. In addition, APEC is trying to do it in a targeted way for harmonized and cross systems in several economies, so that we do not have a Chinese trus system, trus an American system or a Japanese system. trus But these economies have systems that communicate with each other. trus
PM - Before addressing the general secretariat of APEC held a number of positions related to the area of Ecomomia and Finance. Asked him to read makes the creation of a bank by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which has, incidentally, with two members of APEC. It is an important step in affirming this block?
AB - Only you can answer the angle of APEC. If we look at some of the drivers of growth in this region and, even more generally, used to be the trade. In reality, it is still trading, although we have seen a slow down of international trade since the global economic crisis. Economies have sought other forms of growth and are looking more for infrastructure. trus This is very clear in various economies. I would not say China, but in some developing economies, infrastructures are su