ASEAN Summit Live:We'll join fight against 'evil' IS,says Malaysian PM

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak , in the opening of Asean summit on Saturday,  condemned the Islamic State  as an "evil" terrorist group that have shaken the world in recent weeks and said his Muslim-majority country is ready to join others to defeat it.


Referring to the terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut, the bombing of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai peninsula, a Malaysian man beheaded in the Philippines and the hotel attack in Mali , Razak said Islamic State showed a "sickening disregard for human life" and  problems of extremism required new solutions, and military action alone would not be enough to defeat the "Islamic State".
Heads of state from 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation and nine world leaders, including President Barack Obama, are meeting in Malaysia to discuss trade ,economic issues, and specially terrorism and  South China Sea disputes  that is threatning maritime security.


Najib says Malaysia and the United States  has joined hands  to  work together and with other like-minded countries to make Southeast Asia safer by defeating Islamic State group which is a  perverted form of Islam.

U.S. President Barack Obama said summit meetings among world leaders in  Kuala Lumpur  during the  annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the adjoining East Asia Summit will focus on the global fight against Islamic State militancy and  for establishing  "rule-based order" in the disputed South China Sea which is required for  regional security and economic prosperity, both cornerstones of the U.S. to rebalance the Asia-Pacific region

"The United States does strongly believe in the need to apply the rule of law and international norms in the resolution of maritime disputes ," Obama said. "Freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce" have been the foundation for region's growth."

“Malaysia is part of the coalition to fight [the Islamic State group] and can be extraordinarily helpful on issues like countering the destructive and perverse narrative that’s developed,” US President Barack Obama told reporters Friday
"The perpetrators of these cowardly and barbaric acts do not represent any race, religion or creed, nor should we allow them to claim to do so. They are terrorists and should be confronted as such with the full force of the law," said Razak.

Malaysia stood with fellow leaders "against this new evil that blasphemes against the name of Islam", he said.
The summit of the 10-nation Association of South-east Asian Nations , followed by a series of nine other summits involving Asia-Pacific countries, is taking place in the Malaysian capital in the backdrop of several terror  attacks by Islamic State around the world.

"It is the ideology propagated by these extremists that is the cause of this sadistic violence, and in this time of tragedy, we must not lose sight of the fact that the ideology itself must be exposed as the lie that it is and vanquished, for it is not Islamic -- it cannot be," said Razak.

"We should examine why any should be misguided enough to follow this perverted ideology. What is their motivation? But let us be clear -- it is an utter travesty of a religion of peace, justice and moderation," said Razak.