国内英语资讯:6th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Senior Officials Meeting paves way for Summit_时事

国内英语资讯:6th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Senior Officials Meeting paves way for Summit

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 9 -- The 6th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Senior Officials' Meeting was held here on Tuesday, with high-level officials from the six Lancang-Mekong countries finalizing the Five-year Action Plan and the Phnom Penh Declaration for Wednesday's 2nd LMC Leaders' Meeting.

Co-chair of the meeting Huang Xilian, deputy director-general of the Asian Affairs Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told Xinhua that the Senior Officials' Meeting discussed the significant progress the LMC mechanism has been made since its establishment only less than two years ago.

"The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation has shown a characteristic of pragmatism, high efficiency, project-based, and people's livelihood-prioritized," said Huang.

According to him, the meeting has reviewed several important documents for Wednesday's summit, including the Phnom Penh Declaration and the Five-Year Plan of Action on LMC (2018-2022).

"We have reached a consensus on the Five-Year Action Plan proposed by China, which covers more than 20 cooperative areas and will set as a guideline document for the development of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation in the next five years," Huang said.

The Phnom Penh Declaration will express the strong political will of all six Lancang-Mekong countries, namely China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, to promote the LMC for greater achievements, the Chinese official said.

The meeting also reviewed the list of the second batch of tentative LMC projects, which have attracted more than 200 project applications, and reports of the six working groups of priority areas, Huang added.