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PM Abhisit to attend 1st Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo
BANGKOK, Oct 5 (TNA) - Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will attend the first Mekong-Japan Summit Friday in Japan’s capital, Tokyo, and hold bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
The Thai prime minister will depart Bangkok Thursday night for the 1st Mekong-Japan Summit scheduled to be held Friday and Saturday November 6-7.
Mr Abhisit said that Thailand will focus on three important issues--infrastructure connectivity to boost economic development in the East-West and the Southern economic corridors and pave the way for ASEAN economic integration, environmental problems (Japan has played a major role in resolving climate change), and human resources development.
The Thai premier said that the summit is expected to issue an investment plan for infrastructure and environmental rehabilitation, as well as human resources development.
In addition, Mr Abhisit said a declaration on joint political will was scheduled to be signed.
The Thai premier said that after the summit ends, he will hold bilateral talks with Japanese premier and his Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada.
He said the meeting will focus on economic cooperation, especially applying the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) and Creative Economics for Economic Value Added .
The Thai premier said Thailand has met with Japanese investors both in and out of the kingdom about implementing the economic partnership agreement and will resolve the problem at Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in accordance with the law, as concerned by the investors after Thailand's Central Administrative Court ordered 76 industrial projects there to temporarily halt operating amid continual concern about critical environmental and health impacts.
Japan earlier reaffirmed its continued commitment to help narrow development gaps in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) through various sub-regional development endeavours.
Japan initiated the Mekong-Japan Cooperation framework, while designating the year 2009 as the Mekong-Japan Exchange Year.
The 1st Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo will strengthen Mekong-Japan cooperative relations. (TNA)
The Thai prime minister will depart Bangkok Thursday night for the 1st Mekong-Japan Summit scheduled to be held Friday and Saturday November 6-7.
Mr Abhisit said that Thailand will focus on three important issues--infrastructure connectivity to boost economic development in the East-West and the Southern economic corridors and pave the way for ASEAN economic integration, environmental problems (Japan has played a major role in resolving climate change), and human resources development.
The Thai premier said that the summit is expected to issue an investment plan for infrastructure and environmental rehabilitation, as well as human resources development.
In addition, Mr Abhisit said a declaration on joint political will was scheduled to be signed.
The Thai premier said that after the summit ends, he will hold bilateral talks with Japanese premier and his Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada.
He said the meeting will focus on economic cooperation, especially applying the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) and Creative Economics for Economic Value Added .
The Thai premier said Thailand has met with Japanese investors both in and out of the kingdom about implementing the economic partnership agreement and will resolve the problem at Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in accordance with the law, as concerned by the investors after Thailand's Central Administrative Court ordered 76 industrial projects there to temporarily halt operating amid continual concern about critical environmental and health impacts.
Japan earlier reaffirmed its continued commitment to help narrow development gaps in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) through various sub-regional development endeavours.
Japan initiated the Mekong-Japan Cooperation framework, while designating the year 2009 as the Mekong-Japan Exchange Year.
The 1st Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo will strengthen Mekong-Japan cooperative relations. (TNA)
