Disaster Management discussed in Mekong Japan summit
Leaders from Japan and Mekong countries Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam agreed in their third summit in Bali to map out new areas of cooperation in order to make development in the region be more relevant and contribute to the establishment of
The new pillars of Mekong-Japan cooperation for the period of three year 2013-2015 would be intensively discussed for the adoption when Japan hosted the next summit in Japan next year.
The new three year plan would update the current one, made since 2009, to reflect the current situation, according to the joint statement issued after the summit Friday evening.
During the summit in Bali, leaders of the group emphasized the needs to have further cooperation for disaster management in the Mekong region, taking into account of the current great flood in the region notably in Thailand where a huge Japanese production base was seriously damaged.
“Japanese and Mekong economies are closely connected via production chain and logistic linkage in this region, so that the damage affected all of our economies,” Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said in the meeting.
Water resource management in the Mekong region is very important issue for the region. Thailand supported cooperation of countries in the Lower Mekong basin which included Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam on the water resource management, she said.
The Nation
