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Ahead of ASEAN summit, India to host Mekong-Ganga meeting
Monday September 03, 2012 08:01:02 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Senior
officials of the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation grouping, also
comprising Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, met here
to firm up the agenda for the meeting of their foreign ministers
to explore pathways of collaboration among the six countries.
Ahead of the India-ASEAN commemorative summit in December,
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Tuesday will also be
meeting Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor
Namhong and Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
Thongloun Sisoulith.
The Mekong-Ganga foreign ministers' meeting is expected to focus
on spurring connectivity projects and explore ways to boost
economic, cultural and tourism exchanges among these fast-growing
countries and India.
The meeting will review cooperation between the MGC countries and
set out the future direction of this important mechanism for
enhanced cooperation in the region, the external affairs ministry
said here.
The Mekong-Ganga meeting is being held ahead of the ASEAN-India
commemorative summit in New Delhi Dec 20-21 which will mark the
20th anniversary of the ASEAN-India dialogue partnership and the
10th anniversary of ASEAN-India Summit-level partnership.
The theme of the summit is "ASEAN-India Partnership for Peace and
Shared Prosperity".
The summit will culminate in the adoption of the ASEAN-India
Vision Statement 2020, which would map out the future direction of
ASEAN-India relations.
The six-nation Mekong-Ganga Cooperation is a loose grouping that
was formed in Laotian capital Vientiane in 2000 to expand
cooperation in areas of tourism, culture, education and
communications between India and the five Mekong river basin
countries.
The grouping was formed to leverage cultural and civilizational
affinities among the riparian states of the Ganga and Mekong.
The ministerial meeting is among a number of events that will
showcase the upward trajectory in India's Look East policy that is
acquiring momentum against the backdrop of China flexing its
muscles in the region.
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