17 August 2024
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2024-08-17 10:01
Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe participated in the 9th Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on 16 August in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The Meeting was co-chaired by Mr. Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee, Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China and Mrs. Eksiri Pintaruchi, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand.
During the Meeting, the Ministers cordially discussed and exchanged views on the progress and future direction of the Mekong Lancang Cooperation. Their discussions focused on promoting agricultural sector and food security, preserving water resources and environment, combating transboundary crimes and enhancing tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
During the Meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister also updated the Myanmar’s cooperation efforts in the MLC to the Heads of Delegation of MLC member countries.
In his discussion, he highlighted to further enhance cooperation in agriculture sector development and food security in the region, to strengthen multi-model connectivity and to deepen cooperation in the areas of law enforcement and combating transnational crimes, illicit drug trafficking and arms smuggling, online fraud and online gambling. He also stressed the importance of addressing the problem of air pollution, environmental conservation and water resource management.
The Mekong–Lancang Cooperation (MLC) is the regional cooperation mechanism established in 2016 and it comprises of six member countries namely Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam.
The main aim of MLC is to promote socio-economic development in the Mekong-Lancang region and to reduce development gaps among MLC member countries. Myanmar has been granted a total of (118) regional development projects through the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund from 2017 to 2024.
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