Posted : Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:19:05 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Asia (World)
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
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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 powergeneration
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.
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