The process of enhancing IMT-GT connectivity should take into account, and indeed
take advantage of, the synergies of the ASEAN wide initiatives on trade and investment
liberalization and facilitation as well as the broader initiatives towards establishment of the
ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. Experience and achievements of other
subregional cooperation initiatives, like GMS, CAREC, and SASEC, in promoting regional
infrastructure connectivity should also be drawn upon as both models and benchmarks for
development of economic connectivity corridors and regional infrastructure connectivity
within IMT-GT