The Opening Ceremony of the 11th
Regional Working Group (RWG) Meeting of the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) and
Friends of the Lower Mekong (FLM) was held on 3rd May at the M Gallery Hotel,
Nay Pyi Taw.
Delegations from LMI/FLM members (the
United States, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Viet Nam, World Bank, Australia,
Asian Development Bank, Republic of Korea and ASEAN Secretariat) as well as
delegations from the relevant ministries of Myanmar attended the ceremony. U
Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar SOM Leader and Director General of the International
Organizations and Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
delivered welcome remarks together with other Heads of Delegation.
The meeting was co-chaired by Myanmar
and the United States.
The meeting focused on streamlining and
restructuring the LMI framework for better effectiveness and made preparations
for the upcoming LMI and FLM Ministerial meeting to be held in later part of
July 2018.
The concurrent sessions of six
cooperation pillars (Agriculture and Food Security, Connectivity, Education,
Energy Security, Environment and Water, and Health) under the LMI cooperation
framework were held.
On the sidelines of the Regional Working
Group meeting, the Water Data Management meeting, the Public-Private Sector
Engagement Dialogue, the One Health – Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource
Toolkit (OH-SMART) workshop and the thematic sessions on education and
market-oriented agriculture trade were also held.
In the evening of 3rd May, a welcome
reception was hosted by Myanmar SOM Leader in honour of delegates from the LMI
and FLM members at the M Gallery Hotel.
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