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 Enhancing Mekong-Japan cooperation efficiency


(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will attend the fifth Mekong-Japan Summit during his Japan visit starting on December 12, demonstrating Vietnam’s desire to make this cooperation mechanism more effective.
At the 12th ASEAN Summit in the Philippines in 2007, Japan proposed the Japan-Mekong Partnership Programme, focusing on three prioritised areas of integrating economies of the region and beyond, expanding trade and investment between Japan and Mekong region countries, and pursuing universal values and common goals of the region.
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PM Nguyen Tan Dung attended the 4th Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo in 2012 (Photo:VGP)
To date Japan and Mekong region countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) have organised six Foreign Ministers’ Meetings and four Summits.
The Mekong-Japan Cooperation mechanism was established in 2008 aiming to build a partnership for common prosperity between Japan and Mekong region countries.
Many key projects in the areas of infrastructure development, the environment, cultural exchange, and private-public partnership (PPP) cooperation have been implemented to realise the Japan Declaration, Action Plan 63, an initiative on trade and industrial cooperation, and the green Mekong initiative.
The Mekong-Japan Cooperation has developed positively because of their strategic interests and mutual support in the region, as Japan has a financial and technological capacity and Mekong countries have big advantages in terms of natural resources, labour force, and market.
At the fourth Japan-Mekong Summit in 2012, participating countries adopted the Tokyo Strategy, identifying three new cooperation areas for 2013-15, namely enhancing Mekong connectivity, promoting economic-trade cooperation between Japan and GMS countries, and ensuring human security and environmental sustainability.
At this summit, the Japanese Prime Minister committed 600 billion Japanese Yen to GMS countries in the following three years, and announced a list of 57 projects worth 2,300 billion Yen for implementation. The fifth Mekong-Japan Foreign Ministers Meeting adopted an Action Plan with a number of specific cooperation projects and programmes in order to realise the 2012 Tokyo Strategy.
Since joining the Mekong-Japan Cooperation, Vietnam has made significant contributions to this strategic dialogue. The country has actively participated in and made use of Japanese aid for cooperation projects, especially those on infrastructure development.
Vietnam has introduced initiatives to improve the efficiency of the Mekong-Japan cooperation mechanism.  The fourth Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo in 2012 welcomed Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s proposal to enhance connectivity of the economic corridors in the Mekong subregion through multimodal transport.
The initiative helps make the most of the region’s river system to support land, waterway and sea transport, facilitate tourism and trade exchanges by cutting transport cost and travel time, and contribute to environmental protection by cutting emissions from transport.
During his Japan visit from December 12-15, PM Dung will attend the 5th Mekong-Japan Summit, demonstrating Vietnam’s keen interest in this cooperation mechanism and its desire to make this cooperation more effective. 
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