The fifth Asia-Pacific Francophone Parliamentary Assembly (APF) conference has convened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from Sept. 9-11.

Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly’s External Relations Committee and APF Vice President Ngo Quang Xuan has attended the event together with delegations from the Cambodian, Lao, French, Belgium and Canadian parliaments and many international organisations.

The conference focused discussion on socio-economic development policies after the global financial crisis and new cooperation opportunities for French-speaking countries in the Asia-Pacific.

The delegates adopted a joint communique, expressing their consensus on enhancing cooperation among French-speaking countries in the Asia-Pacific in education and economic development to raise the people’s living conditions and reduce poverty rate./.