The eighth conference of the Committees for External Relations of the National Assemblies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLV) on Development Triangle Area was held via videoconference on September 23.

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations Vu Hai Ha leads the Vietnamese delegation to the event .
 

Hosted by Cambodia, the event was themed “strengthening parliamentary partnership for sustainable development and response to COVID-19 in the CLV Development Triangle Area,” aiming to realise the shared interests and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic for the common prosperity and solidarity of people in the area as well as the promotion of traditional friendship and long-term solidarity among the three countries.

Opening the event, Kittisangahakbindit Khuon Sudary, Second Vice President of the National Assembly of Cambodia, underlined the significance of cooperation in the CLV Development Triangle Area to the vision towards prosperity and cooperation for development, especially in the economic recovery from COVID-19.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations Vu Hai Ha lauded Cambodia’s efforts in organising the conference, and showed support to the theme of the event.

Ha said that to realise the goals included in the conference’s theme, all parties should exert more efforts to implement their commitments for the comprehensive socio-economic development in the Development Triangle Area in a sustainable manner, while rolling out effective measures to deal with the current complicated pandemic developments, and contributing to promoting the traditional friendship and solidarity among the three countries.

Following the opening session, the conference conducted the first and second sessions, during which participants discussed a report on the implementation of the development plan and measures to deal with COVID-19 crisis in the CLV Development Triangle Area, and a report on the outcomes of the supervision activities of the three committees over the Development Triangle Area.

In the afternoon, participants are scheduled to sit for the third session and adopt a joint statement before concluding the conference.

The joint statement of the conference stated: The 8th Conference of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with the theme: "Strengthening parliamentary partnership for sustainable development and response to the Covid-19 crisis in the CLV Development Triangle Area" chaired by the Committee for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Communication of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia on September 23, 2021 in the Capital Phnom Penh, with the aim of deepening the traditional friendship and partnership between the National Assembly of the three countries, promoting economic recovery and people's livelihoods in the Cambodia-Laos Development Triangle Area - Vietnam (CLV-DTA) from the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Conference appreciated the Report of the Joint Coordinating Committees CLV-DTA presented by the representative of the Ministry of Commerce of the Kingdom of Cambodia, together with the Reports of the Representatives of the Joint Coordinating Committee of Cambodia CLV-DTA, Laos and Vietnam. The Conference highly appreciated the reports on the monitoring results of the three foreign affairs committees on the implementation of cooperation agreements in the CLV Development Triangle Area.

The conference appreciated the results of the 11th CLV Development Triangle Summit hosted by Laos on December 9, 2020 in the online form, in which the Tourism Development Plan was approved. for the CLV Development Triangle Area for the period of 2020-2025, a vision to 2030 and a Development Plan for the rubber industry in the CLV development triangle.

The Conference reaffirmed its commitment to participate in transforming the CLV Development Triangle into a region of sustainable development, inclusiveness, peace, stability, harmony and resilience, bringing prosperity to all everyone, leaving a precious legacy for the next generations of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA)./.

Q.Lien