Cambodian FM to attend 9th LMC foreign ministers’ meeting in Thailand

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — Cambodian Foreign Minister Sok Chenda Sophea will attend the ninth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Friday, the country’s foreign ministry said in a news release.
“The meeting, under the theme ‘Towards a Safer and Cleaner Lancang-Mekong Community,’ will provide an opportunity for the foreign ministers to review progress under the LMC mechanism,” the news release said.
“This includes implementing the substantive outcomes of the fourth LMC Leaders’ Meeting in December last year, jointly addressing emerging challenges and exploring better ways, based on the Five-Year Plan of Action on the LMC (2023-2027), to move LMC forward for the benefits of peoples in the Mekong sub-region as a whole,” it added.
During his stay, Chenda Sophea is expected to have bilateral talks with other foreign ministers to further strengthen ties and cooperation under bilateral and multilateral frameworks, it said.
The LMC countries include China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Launch in China in 2016, the LMC focuses on five priority areas of cooperation, namely connectivity, production capacity, cross-border economic cooperation, water resources management and agriculture, and poverty reduction. ■