The first document is the Five-year Plan of Action (2018-2022) to enforce cooperation and development projects, and the other is the Phnom Penh Declaration to express the countries’ political wills on political, economic and social cooperation. Set up in 2015, the LMC comprises six riparian states of the Mekong River: China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Foreign ministers from the group met in Dali, China in the middle of December last year to consider the action plan, which included list of cooperation projects in key priority sectors. They are: connectivity, productivity capacity, cross-border economic cooperation, water resources, agriculture and poverty reduction, but details have not yet been made public. The Phnom Penh Declaration would express political wills of the six countries to cooperate on political and security to maintain peace in the Mekong basin without interference in domestic affairs of members, according to a government official.

Source: The Nation Bangkok January 03, 2018 09:56 UTC