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Consultation seminar looks into ASEAN integration projects

A national consultation seminar was held in Hanoi on August 29 to review the implementation of the third stage of the Working Plan for Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) for 2016 – 2020 in Vietnam.
Consultation seminar looks into ASEAN integration projects ảnh 1At the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A national consultationseminar was held in Hanoi on August 29 to review the implementation of thethird stage of the Working Plan for Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) for2016 – 2020 in Vietnam.

Co-organised by the Foreign Ministry and the ASEAN Secretariat, the event aimedto look into projects within the framework of the working plan, thus proposingmeasures to further improve the efficiency of the working plan at present andin the future.

Speaking at the event, Assistant to the Foreign Minister Nguyen Van Thaoaffirmed the strategic importance of narrowing development gap to the processof ASEAN Community building.

He reiterated the IAI’s goal of promoting mutual support within the bloc,enhancing integration and narrowing development gap via development cooperationand technical support programmes for Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

Thao thanked ASEAN 6 countries and ASEAN’s partners for providing support forVietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, and lauded active and importantcontributions by Vietnamese ministries and agencies to IAI projects.

The event afforded Vietnamese ministries and agencies a chance to offer properrecommendations to effectively carry out IAI projects in the near future,towards building a politically-connected, economically-linked, people-centredASEAN Community with equal development.-VNA
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