The 8th Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) ministerial meeting held on October 14-15 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, affirmed its commitment to enhancing joint-efforts among Asian nations.
Foreign ministers, along with deputy and state ministers of foreign affairs from 31 ADC member countries attending the meeting, adopted the Colombo Declaration, which affirmed the determination to boost ACD’s activities to become more practical and effective.
A Vietnamese delegation to the meeting themed "Spirit of Asia: Global Economic Recovery and Development Prospects", was led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Doan Xuan Hung.
Addressing those assembled, Deputy Minister Hung said that Vietnam is an ACD founding member and always attaches great importance to collaboration within the body.
He also proposed that ACD should draw up measures and concrete action plans to diversify avenues of cooperation, especially in boosting regional and sub-regional economic cooperation, as well as other areas within the ACD’s purview, including trade, investment, tourism, energy, human resource development and environmental protection.
Meanwhile, participants at the meeting said that although Asia was adversely impacted by the global financial crisis, the region has rapidly rebounded, playing an important role in rebuilding the world economy.
They said that more efforts are needed to take full advantage of opportunities to step up regional economic integration in a bid to boost connectivity and sustainable development in Asia, contributing to improving the global financial and economic structure and addressing common challenges in terms of energy and climate change.
They also called for efforts to build a united and prosperous Asian community and agreed to convene the ADC coordination group every six months to seek ways to deploy ADC projects, giving top priority to joint-efforts in the fields of trade, tourism, transportation, energy, information technology, culture and education.
On the sidelines of the meeting, the Vietnamese delegation’s Head, Deputy Minister Hung, paid a courtesy call to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, met Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and worked with other delegation heads to talk about bilateral cooperation./.
Foreign ministers, along with deputy and state ministers of foreign affairs from 31 ADC member countries attending the meeting, adopted the Colombo Declaration, which affirmed the determination to boost ACD’s activities to become more practical and effective.
A Vietnamese delegation to the meeting themed "Spirit of Asia: Global Economic Recovery and Development Prospects", was led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Doan Xuan Hung.
Addressing those assembled, Deputy Minister Hung said that Vietnam is an ACD founding member and always attaches great importance to collaboration within the body.
He also proposed that ACD should draw up measures and concrete action plans to diversify avenues of cooperation, especially in boosting regional and sub-regional economic cooperation, as well as other areas within the ACD’s purview, including trade, investment, tourism, energy, human resource development and environmental protection.
Meanwhile, participants at the meeting said that although Asia was adversely impacted by the global financial crisis, the region has rapidly rebounded, playing an important role in rebuilding the world economy.
They said that more efforts are needed to take full advantage of opportunities to step up regional economic integration in a bid to boost connectivity and sustainable development in Asia, contributing to improving the global financial and economic structure and addressing common challenges in terms of energy and climate change.
They also called for efforts to build a united and prosperous Asian community and agreed to convene the ADC coordination group every six months to seek ways to deploy ADC projects, giving top priority to joint-efforts in the fields of trade, tourism, transportation, energy, information technology, culture and education.
On the sidelines of the meeting, the Vietnamese delegation’s Head, Deputy Minister Hung, paid a courtesy call to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, met Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and worked with other delegation heads to talk about bilateral cooperation./.
