Vietnam to host summits of Mekong nations in November
31/10/2008 17:38
The third Ayeyawadi-Chao Phraya- Mekong Economic Cooperation Summit
(ACMECS) and the fourth Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam Summit (CLMV) will take
place in Hanoi from Nov. 4-7, according to Vietnam News Agency today.
The
news was announced by Deputy Foreign Minister Doan Xuan Hung at a regular press
briefing on Oct. 30.
Hung said the summits will draw together Prime
Ministers, Foreign Ministers and officials from relevant ministries of member
countries to discuss solutions to improve their efficiency in implementing
cooperation agreements reached at previous summits.
The events are expected
to see the attendance of approximately 400 businessmen from a number of regional
countries, plus representatives from international organizations, and investors
from Japan, the Republic of Korea, the US and Europe Union.
The ACMECS is
scheduled to issue a joint statement regarding facilitating trade, investment
and tourism between the five member countries, and the CLMV is due to ratify a
joint statement of leaders and a list of projects prioritized for implementation
in the near future.
Established in November 2003, ACMECS is an economic
cooperation mechanism of five countries; Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and
Vietnam, which aims to boost cooperation in five major fields: trade-investment,
industry-agriculture, transport, tourism, and human resource development.
Vietnam joined the ACMECS in November 2004.
The CLMV mechanism was formed in
2004 under the initiative of Laos. In addition to the five cooperation fields
being addressed by the ACMECS, the CLMV also focuses on tourism, information
technology and communication.
Xinhua
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