Thursday, 6 November 2008

4th Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam Summit opens in Hanoi

People's Daily Online
November 06, 2008

The 4th Summit of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) opened in Hanoi on Thursday, with the theme of "Acting Together For Further Integration And Development."

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and representative from the ASEAN Secretariat attended the summit and delivered speeches.

Leaders reviewed progress that has been made since the first CLMV summit, which was held in 2004 and adopted the Vientiane Declaration.

They discussed ways to further deepen regional cooperation and integration, as well as concrete measures to further implement the Vientiane Declaration. According to the Declaration, key cooperation areas among CLMV include trade and investment, agriculture, industry and energy, transport, information technology, tourism and human resource development.

Source:Xinhua

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