Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei HUN Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom. of Cambodia, will participate in the Fourth Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) Leaders’ Meeting to be held via videoconference on Dec. 25, 2023.

The participation will be made at the invitation of co-chairs Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and H.E. Li Qiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, said a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued this afternoon, adding that accompanying Samdech Thipadei will be a number of Deputy Prime Ministers, Ministers and senior government officials.

According to the source, under the theme “Join Hands on the Building of a Community of Shared Future and Modernisation among Mekong-Lancang Countries, the Leaders will review overall progress and chart future directions for widening cooperation, promote mutual trust and strengthen partnerships under the MLC framework, contributing to
socio-economic development and enhancing the well-being of the peoples of the sub-region.

Three documents are expected to be adopted, namely: (1) the Nay Pyi Taw Declaration; (2) the Five-Year Plan of Action on MLC (2023-2027); (3) the Joint Initiative on the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Innovation Corridor Development, it pointed out.

‘The Fourth MLC Leaders’ Meeting will be a milestone for the Mekong-Lancang countries to realise their common goals of promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the sub-region and advance MLC Cooperation to a higher level, through the launching of the implementation of the Five-Year Plan of Action,’ underlined the press release.
Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse