Jan 16, 2008
DPA
Tokyo - Ministers from five nations on the Mekong River gathered Wednesday in Tokyo for the first Japan-Mekong talks to solicit financial aid from the world's second-largest economy and improve ties.
Japan was to announce it would establish a 6-billion-yen (55.75-million-dollar) fund for infrastructure in the Mekong nations except for Myanmar, the Kyodo News Agency said.
Tokyo was also to offer 2.2 billion yen to help Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam build schools and power-generation facilities for the poor as well as 1.7 billion yen to support Cambodia's poverty-reduction efforts, the report said.
The agenda also included economic cooperation and cultural exchanges.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met the ministers from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam Wednesday and expressed Japan's hopes to cooperate on the region's development.
Komura agreed with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem's request to push forward a bilateral free trade agreement while he promised Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong Japan's assistance in carrying out his county's National Assembly election in July.
In return, the two ministers promised their support in Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and Tokyo's efforts to win the return of its citizens abducted by North Korea.
Japan was to announce it would establish a 6-billion-yen (55.75-million-dollar) fund for infrastructure in the Mekong nations except for Myanmar, the Kyodo News Agency said.
Tokyo was also to offer 2.2 billion yen to help Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam build schools and power-generation facilities for the poor as well as 1.7 billion yen to support Cambodia's poverty-reduction efforts, the report said.
The agenda also included economic cooperation and cultural exchanges.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met the ministers from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam Wednesday and expressed Japan's hopes to cooperate on the region's development.
Komura agreed with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem's request to push forward a bilateral free trade agreement while he promised Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong Japan's assistance in carrying out his county's National Assembly election in July.
In return, the two ministers promised their support in Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and Tokyo's efforts to win the return of its citizens abducted by North Korea.
3 comments:
The UN must not get many members at the UN Security Council.
Japan and Korea are with Vietnamese.
For any military intervention of the UN, all the parmanents members of the UN security must be agree.
In the future Vietnam can invade and kill khmer people as they want because Japan will never agree with any military intervention in Vietnam.
If you accept these monies, Cambodia will be in danger.
PLEASE NO MORE AID FOR CAMBODIA
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