(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) oul April 10 - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won asked the international community Thursday to extend support for the reunification of the two Koreas stressing that a unified Korea will be a new global growth engine South Korea's News (Yonhap) reported. He made the remarks during his keynote speech at the Boao Forum of Asia held in China's tropical island of Hainan. Chung is on his eight-day trip which will also take him to Pakistan early next week. "Our peaceful reunification will set out a novel blueprint for the future for not only the Korean Peninsula but all of Asia" Chung said in a speech. "The unified Korea based upon free democracy and market economy will be a new growth engine for Asia and beyond by providing each country of the world with a new destination for investment" he said. Explaining the so-called Dresden Declaration by President Park Geun-hye Chung called for "the international community's actively cooperation and support for Seoul's efforts for national unity." The prime minister also introduced South Korea's economic policy measures including its three-year economic innovation plan and its "creative economy" vision. "In a move to shift the paradigm into a dynamic innovative economy South Korea plans to expand its investment in science technology to have it reach 5 percent of the gross domestic product by 2017" Chung said. "We have also been actively pushing for deregulation to remove stumbling blocks for the emergence of new types of businesses and investment" he said. "We hope to grow together with other Asian countries by sharing our economic innovation strategies." Launched in 2001 by China the Boao Forum for Asia has been a venue for leaders from government business and academia in Asia and other continents to exchange visions on pending economic and other related issues. The annual meeting was modeled after the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Chung will then move to the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing next Friday to attend a ceremony marking the 95th anniversary of the establishment of a provisional government
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