Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will attend the 5^th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit scheduled for December 19-20 in Bangkok at the invitation of his Thai counterpart Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (Photo: VNA)

Viet Nam’s attendance at the event is to show the country’s support for the GMS mechanism and affirm the role and position played by the country in promoting sub-regional and regional links as well as the relations between Viet Nam and other nations in the sub-region.

Viet Nam will take the occasion to consolidate the Strategic Partnership with Thailand, while calling for support from the international community for joint efforts in the sustainable management and use of the Mekong River water.

Established in 1992 under the initiative of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the GMS cooperation programme consists of Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and China’s Yunnan and Guangxi provinces.

Over the last 22 years, the programme reaped significant achievements in the 10 key fields of transport, energy, environment, tourism, information and communications, trade, investment, human resources development, agriculture and rural development, and urban development along economic corridors.