As larger economies reach for tariffs, export controls and closed blocs, smaller trading nations cannot follow them inward. Their growth depends on access to markets, and in a fragmenting world that access is now built corridor by corridor. This Summit opens one between Southeast Asia and 88 Francophone countries, as payment links that already reach major ASEAN markets extend toward African systems. The remarks set out what it takes for trade payments to become faster and cheaper for exporters, workers and small businesses, and how Southeast Asian and Francophone markets can plug into each other while others pull apart.