Foreign Ministers of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam andJapan and the assistant to the Lao Foreign Minister have confirmedtheir determination to accelerate cooperation and consolidate theirmulti-faceted relations.
The confirmation was madeat the third Mekong-Japan Ministerial Meeting under the chairmanship ofDeputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem in Hanoion July 21 on the sidelines of the 43rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting(AMM-43).
The third Mekong-Japan Ministerial Meetingis the first of its kind following the first Mekong-Japan Summit thattook place in Tokyo in November 2009.
Themeeting reviewed the implementation of commitments among countries atthe first summit stated in the Tokyo Declaration and the Mekong-JapanAction Plan 63.
It also recognised the initialresults of projects and programmes of the Action Plan 63 and theVietnamese Prime Minister’s initiative on human resource development andthe protection of the Mekong river sources raised at the firstsummit.
The participants highlighted Japan ’sinitiative “A decade toward the Green Mekong” and discussed a number ofregional and international issues of mutual concern, including theKorean peninsula and the UN reform.
They alsorecognised new developments in the cooperation between Mekong countriesand Japan and reached consensus on ways to implement in order toboost this cooperation mechanism.
They agreed tohost the second Mekong-Japan Summit on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summitin October 2010 in Vietnam and that Japan will host the fourthministerial meeting in 2011.
The ministers concludedthe conference with the adoption of the President’s declaration./.
The confirmation was madeat the third Mekong-Japan Ministerial Meeting under the chairmanship ofDeputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem in Hanoion July 21 on the sidelines of the 43rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting(AMM-43).
The third Mekong-Japan Ministerial Meetingis the first of its kind following the first Mekong-Japan Summit thattook place in Tokyo in November 2009.
Themeeting reviewed the implementation of commitments among countries atthe first summit stated in the Tokyo Declaration and the Mekong-JapanAction Plan 63.
It also recognised the initialresults of projects and programmes of the Action Plan 63 and theVietnamese Prime Minister’s initiative on human resource development andthe protection of the Mekong river sources raised at the firstsummit.
The participants highlighted Japan ’sinitiative “A decade toward the Green Mekong” and discussed a number ofregional and international issues of mutual concern, including theKorean peninsula and the UN reform.
They alsorecognised new developments in the cooperation between Mekong countriesand Japan and reached consensus on ways to implement in order toboost this cooperation mechanism.
They agreed tohost the second Mekong-Japan Summit on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summitin October 2010 in Vietnam and that Japan will host the fourthministerial meeting in 2011.
The ministers concludedthe conference with the adoption of the President’s declaration./.
