Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets Asian leaders
VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on September 10 took part in a high-level meeting of Asian leaders in Helsinki, where the sixth Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM 6) is being held.
The meeting reviewed the role of Asia and the development process of ASEM, and discussed an Asia Europe Declaration in the spirit of the 2004 Hanoi Declaration on Closer ASEM Economic Partnership.
The Asian leaders agreed to invite India, Mongolia and Pakistan to take part in the next Asia Europe Meeting, and proposed admitting them to ASEM in 2007.
At the meeting, the Asian leaders also agreed to allow two European countries, Bulgaria and Romania, to become official members of ASEM.
Earlier, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held a meeting with the Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to discuss issues of common interests, including the construction of a trans-Asia railway from Singapore to Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and China's Kunming, in order to boost trade exchange between those regional countries and China.
At the meeting, the Cambodian side gave an update on the railway construction process and said there was still two parts of the railway with a combined length of 256 km that had to be completed.
Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his wish that these countries should reach an unanimity to enable China to support the construction of the railway. The five prime ministers agreed to raise the issue in the coming Nanjing Meeting in China.
The meeting reviewed the role of Asia and the development process of ASEM, and discussed an Asia Europe Declaration in the spirit of the 2004 Hanoi Declaration on Closer ASEM Economic Partnership.
The Asian leaders agreed to invite India, Mongolia and Pakistan to take part in the next Asia Europe Meeting, and proposed admitting them to ASEM in 2007.
At the meeting, the Asian leaders also agreed to allow two European countries, Bulgaria and Romania, to become official members of ASEM.
Earlier, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held a meeting with the Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to discuss issues of common interests, including the construction of a trans-Asia railway from Singapore to Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and China's Kunming, in order to boost trade exchange between those regional countries and China.
At the meeting, the Cambodian side gave an update on the railway construction process and said there was still two parts of the railway with a combined length of 256 km that had to be completed.
Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his wish that these countries should reach an unanimity to enable China to support the construction of the railway. The five prime ministers agreed to raise the issue in the coming Nanjing Meeting in China.
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