主持会议的马来西亚国际贸易和工业部部长阿兹明·阿里表示，尽管受到疫情影响，马来西亚依然致力于推动今年APEC会议取得成功，制定APEC2020年后合作愿景的工作正有序推进。
Presiding over the event was Malaysia’s Minister of International Trade and Industry, Mohamed Azmin Ali, who said that despite the impact of the pandemic, Malaysia will still strive to secure the success of this year’s APEC meeting so that the work of formulating a vision for cooperation after the APEC 2020 meeting proceeds in an orderly fashion.