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China-Lancang-Mekong Cooperation/Meeting
Dali City, Yunnan Province, southwest China - Dec 15, 2017
1. Third Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in progress
2. Various of attendees at meeting
3. Myanmar Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tint Swe at meeting
4. Various of attendees at meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister (starting with shot 4):
"Throughout the meeting, our six countries can summarize cooperative experience, consolidate cooperative outcomes, accelerate cooperative process, as well as reach more consensuses on the future development of the mechanism. We also need to make necessary preparation for the second Lancang-Mekong Leaders' Meeting to be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia next January."
6. Meeting in progress
7. Lao Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith speaking at meeting
8. Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at meeting
9. Various of attendees at meeting, meeting in progress
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Prak Sokhon, Cambodian Foreign Minister:
"By strengthening our collective capacity to form production and service's alliances, we can benefit from this new mega free trade regime. We need to accelerate and expedite the financing of major project to build a comprehensive connectivity network of highway, railway, waterway, ports, and air routes in the Langcang-Mekong Region."
11. Press briefing in progress
12. Wang speaking press briefing, Sokhon standing by his side
13. Journalists
14. Wang speaking
15. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister (partially overlaid with shot 16):
"We have made fruitful achievements at the just-concluded meeting. The meeting approved a Joint Press Communique, and announced a list of the cooperative projects supported by the LMC special fund in 2017. We agreed to establish a LMC hotline information platform. We also agreed to make concerted efforts and strengthen cooperation, helping the LMC evolve from its nurturing period into the growing period."
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16. Press briefing in progress
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17. Foreign ministers launching official website of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation China Secretariat
18. Foreign ministers unveiling photo exhibition showcasing major achievements of LMC
19. Foreign ministers visiting photo exhibition
20. Slide showing first LMC Leaders' Meeting
21. Wang, other foreign ministers visiting photo exhibition
22. Sign reading (Chinese/English) "Building up LMC together, sharing outcomes together"
23. Various of foreign ministers locking arms, posing for group photo
Foreign Ministers of the six countries along the Lancang-Mekong River gathered in Dali City of southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday for their third meeting on sub-regional cooperation.
Co-chaired by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon, the third Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting was also attended by their counterparts from Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
Participants at the meeting hailed the rapid development of LMC.
"Throughout the meeting, our six countries can summarize cooperative experience, consolidate cooperative outcomes, accelerate cooperative process, as well as reach more consensuses on the future development of the mechanism. We also need to make necessary preparation for the second Lancang-Mekong Leaders' Meeting to be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia next January," said Wang.
The six countries have identified three areas for cooperation, including political and security issues, economic and sustainable economic development. They also prioritized five key areas, namely, connectivity, production capacity, cross-border economic cooperation, water resources, agriculture and poverty reduction.
"By strengthening our collective capacity to form production and service's alliances, we can benefit from this new mega free trade regime. We need to accelerate and expedite the financing of major project to build a comprehensive connectivity network of highway, railway, waterway, ports, and air routes in the Langcang-Mekong Region," said Sokhon.
Later, Wang briefed the media along with his Cambodian counterpart on the meeting' achievements. He highlighted a Five Year Action Plan starting from 2018 designed to guide LMC.
"We have made fruitful achievements at the just-concluded meeting. The meeting approved a Joint Press Communique, and announced a list of the cooperative projects supported by the LMC special fund in 2017. We agreed to establish a LMC hotline information platform. We also agreed to make concerted efforts and strengthen cooperation, helping the LMC evolve from its nurturing period into the growing period," said Wang.
As part of the event, the foreign ministers launched the official website of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation China Secretariat. They also visited a photo exhibition showcasing major achievements of the group.
Since its official launch in March, 2016, the LMC mechanism has resulted in a number of outcomes, including political mutual trust, trade and investment cooperation, as well as people-to-people exchanges. As the first sub-regional cooperation mechanism of its kind, it also works to promote South-South cooperation, and contributes to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
China-Lancang-Mekong Cooperation/Meeting
Dateline : Dec 15, 2017
Location : Dali,Yunnan,China
Duration : 2'35
Dali City, Yunnan Province, southwest China - Dec 15, 2017
1. Third Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in progress
2. Various of attendees at meeting
3. Myanmar Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tint Swe at meeting
4. Various of attendees at meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister (starting with shot 4):
"Throughout the meeting, our six countries can summarize cooperative experience, consolidate cooperative outcomes, accelerate cooperative process, as well as reach more consensuses on the future development of the mechanism. We also need to make necessary preparation for the second Lancang-Mekong Leaders' Meeting to be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia next January."
6. Meeting in progress
7. Lao Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith speaking at meeting
8. Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at meeting
9. Various of attendees at meeting, meeting in progress
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Prak Sokhon, Cambodian Foreign Minister:
"By strengthening our collective capacity to form production and service's alliances, we can benefit from this new mega free trade regime. We need to accelerate and expedite the financing of major project to build a comprehensive connectivity network of highway, railway, waterway, ports, and air routes in the Langcang-Mekong Region."
11. Press briefing in progress
12. Wang speaking press briefing, Sokhon standing by his side
13. Journalists
14. Wang speaking
15. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister (partially overlaid with shot 16):
"We have made fruitful achievements at the just-concluded meeting. The meeting approved a Joint Press Communique, and announced a list of the cooperative projects supported by the LMC special fund in 2017. We agreed to establish a LMC hotline information platform. We also agreed to make concerted efforts and strengthen cooperation, helping the LMC evolve from its nurturing period into the growing period."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
16. Press briefing in progress
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
17. Foreign ministers launching official website of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation China Secretariat
18. Foreign ministers unveiling photo exhibition showcasing major achievements of LMC
19. Foreign ministers visiting photo exhibition
20. Slide showing first LMC Leaders' Meeting
21. Wang, other foreign ministers visiting photo exhibition
22. Sign reading (Chinese/English) "Building up LMC together, sharing outcomes together"
23. Various of foreign ministers locking arms, posing for group photo
Foreign Ministers of the six countries along the Lancang-Mekong River gathered in Dali City of southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday for their third meeting on sub-regional cooperation.
Co-chaired by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon, the third Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting was also attended by their counterparts from Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
Participants at the meeting hailed the rapid development of LMC.
"Throughout the meeting, our six countries can summarize cooperative experience, consolidate cooperative outcomes, accelerate cooperative process, as well as reach more consensuses on the future development of the mechanism. We also need to make necessary preparation for the second Lancang-Mekong Leaders' Meeting to be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia next January," said Wang.
The six countries have identified three areas for cooperation, including political and security issues, economic and sustainable economic development. They also prioritized five key areas, namely, connectivity, production capacity, cross-border economic cooperation, water resources, agriculture and poverty reduction.
"By strengthening our collective capacity to form production and service's alliances, we can benefit from this new mega free trade regime. We need to accelerate and expedite the financing of major project to build a comprehensive connectivity network of highway, railway, waterway, ports, and air routes in the Langcang-Mekong Region," said Sokhon.
Later, Wang briefed the media along with his Cambodian counterpart on the meeting' achievements. He highlighted a Five Year Action Plan starting from 2018 designed to guide LMC.
"We have made fruitful achievements at the just-concluded meeting. The meeting approved a Joint Press Communique, and announced a list of the cooperative projects supported by the LMC special fund in 2017. We agreed to establish a LMC hotline information platform. We also agreed to make concerted efforts and strengthen cooperation, helping the LMC evolve from its nurturing period into the growing period," said Wang.
As part of the event, the foreign ministers launched the official website of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation China Secretariat. They also visited a photo exhibition showcasing major achievements of the group.
Since its official launch in March, 2016, the LMC mechanism has resulted in a number of outcomes, including political mutual trust, trade and investment cooperation, as well as people-to-people exchanges. As the first sub-regional cooperation mechanism of its kind, it also works to promote South-South cooperation, and contributes to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
ID : 8068751
Published : 2017-12-16 06:08
Last Modified : 2017-12-16 16:24:00
Source : China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
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