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Foreign ministers of the MLC countries pose for a photo at the meeting in China’s Chongqing city on June 8 (Source: VNA)
Bangkok (VNA) – Thai Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Don Pramudwinai proposed four
approaches to strengthen the Mekong - Lancang Cooperation (MLC) at the 6th MLC
Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in China’s Chongqing city on June 8.
The Thai Foreign Ministry said in a statement
that at this event, Pramudwinai said he attaches importance to strengthening
the
He urged closer cooperation in access to and
production of vaccines, post-COVID economic recovery through bio-circular-green
(BCG) economic growth model, digital economy, and water resources management
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen and his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto spoke on the phone on Thursday (June 3), reaffirming the close and longstanding bilateral defence relationship between the two countries, said the Ministry of Defence (Mindef).
Singapore, May 23,2021 (AFP): A top security conference in Singapore that was to be attended by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was cancelled earlier this week due to the coronavirus.
The Shangri-La Dialogue was scheduled to be an in-person event from June 4 to 5, and was also set to welcome ministers and senior military officials from around the world.
But the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the think tank that organises the annual forum, said it had become unviable . Unfortunately the global Covid-19 situation has recently deteriorated, in part because of the rise of infectious new Covid variants, it said in a statement.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The Shangri-La Dialogue scheduled for June 4 to 5 in the Republic has been cancelled, the organisers announced on Thursday (May 20).