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Cambodia to host 7th Greater Mekong Sub-region summit

Cambodia will host the 7th GMS Summit Leaders’ Meeting and Retreat this month to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation in Myanmar, according to the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) secretariat.
Cambodia to host 7th Greater Mekong Sub-region summit ảnh 1Nhập mô tả cho ảnhHeads of delegations of GMS countries in the 6th GMS Summit in Vietnam on March 31, 2018. (Photo: VNA)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodia will host the 7thGMS Summit Leaders’ Meeting and Retreat this month to discuss the COVID-19pandemic and the situation in Myanmar, according to the Greater MekongSubregion (GMS) secretariat.

This summit will be held via videoconference on March 25.

The GMS secretariat hasn’t disclosed the details of theprogramme yet, but some leaders of the GMS nations have already voiced theirsupport for Cambodia hosting the upcoming regional summit, Khmer Timesreported.

At the virtual meeting held on March 11, Lao PrimeMinister Thongloun Sisoulith and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc reaffirmedtheir commitment to extend their full support to Prime Minister Samdech Techo HunSen in hosting the 7th GMS summit.

This is an important summit as the region is facing somechallenges, Kin Phea, director-general of the International Relations Instituteof Cambodia at the Royal Academy of Cambodia, told Khmer Times.

According to Phea, leaders of GMS nations, includingCambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam will use this summit tofind solutions to settle the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts in the region.

At the same time, he added, leaders of GMS nations mayalso discuss the current situation in Myanmar. GMS nations are interested intalking about it as the situation there is difficult to predict, but the solutionmay not different from ASEAN’s, he added.

Besides the 7th GMS summit, Cambodia will also host the 13thAsia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 13) at the end of this year and will also host the ASEANsummit next year./.
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