The participation in the third Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is the affirmation of Vietnam’s care for and strong commitment to the cooperation within the MRC to the spirit of the 1995 Mekong Agreement towards enhancing the agency’s role and the solidarity and cooperation among member countries for mutual interests.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and other delegates at the opening
ceremony of the plenary session of the third MRC Summit. (Source: VNA)
On the evening of April 5, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and
the high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese Government landed in Hanoi, successfully wrapping up their trip to attend the
third MRC Summit in Siem Reap,
Cambodia at the
invitation of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Themed "'Enhancing joint Efforts and
Partnerships towards Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Mekong
River Basin,” the summit reviewed cooperation within the commission and the
implementation of commitments made at the second summit in Vietnam’s Ho Chi
Minh City in 2014, while identifying priority areas in the next periods to use
water resources and other resources in the Mekong River basin in a fair,
appropriate and sustainable manner.
At the summit, PM Phuc pointed out that
the Mekong River
basin countries are dealing with visible, serious consequences
of the exhausting water resources of the Mekong River
and called for prompt and concrete actions to use the water resources and other
related resources sustainably, properly and fairly.
He also called for parties to work
together and take actions to ensure the Mekong River
will be forever the river of peace, which provides long-lasting, sustainable
and wealthy existence for countries and people in the region.
The summit adopted the Siem Rep
Declaration which affirms the importance of Mekong
cooperation as well as the acceleration of the implementation of the 1995
Mekong Agreement. The document also outlines priority activities of the
commission for the next four years and long-term orientations for cooperation
within the commission.
On the sidelines of the summit, PM Phuc had
bilateral meetings with Cambodian and Lao counterparts Hun Sen and Thongloun
Sisoulith and the head of the Chinese delegation to discuss measures and
orientations for bilateral ties. He met with representatives of the Vietnamese
community in Siem Reap.
Source: NDO
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The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee held its monthly conference in virtual form on April 2 to review draft documents to be submitted to the standing board of the provincial Party Committee and others under its management along with some other important issues. Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh chaired the event, which was connected with the people's committees of districts and cities in Hoa Binh.
Smokeless 'Hoang Cam' kitchen was a small yet extremely significant initiative of a soldier chef named Hoang Cam in the Hoa Binh campaign in 1951 – 1952. This legendary stove, later named after him, accompanied the nation in the 1954 Dien Bien Phu Campaign, and during the resistance war against the US.
The 15th meeting of Hoa Binh province’s 17th-tenure Party organisation was held on March 26. Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Council Bui Duc Hinh, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh co-chaired the event.
Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, chaired a meeting of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board on March 21 to review the leadership over the implementation of tasks in the first quarter, identify focal tasks and solutions for the second quarter, and discuss some important draft reports.
