TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday there was no change to his conviction that a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact would help bring prosperity to the Asia-Pacific region.
Global policymakers must not consider trade as a "zero-sum" game, he added, and should instead seek to remove barriers that hamper innovation from crossing borders.
"I don't think TPP is losing momentum," Abe said at a seminar hosted by the Wall Street Journal newspaper in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.
"Japan wants to exert leadership so that we can steer the debate toward a clear direction at a ministerial meeting of 11 nations in Hanoi."