Mekong programme

Chao Phraya River Express

In a strengthened regional multisectoral response in the greater Mekong subregion, through the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative, an agreement was signed in Yangon in October 2004.

Assistance to the Secretariat, the National Mekong Committees, the Commission and the Joint Committee will involve capacity development as well as direct high level technical advisory services.

A pretty idyllic place on the Mekong Delta.

The river, which links five countries, has been long famous as a setting for trans national crimes such as drug trafficking, gambling, and smuggling. China s booming economy has brought growing interaction between China and the Mekong s underground economies.

At the regional level, the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative (COMMIT) had been signed in Yangon in October 2004.

2001 21 Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits

1997 224 Declaration on the Strengthening of Economic Cooperation in Europe and Plan of Action

Of particular importance was the Ayeyawady Chaophraya Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS), bringing together Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam.

At the subregional level, following the signing of the memorandum of understanding of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) in 2005, the six Greater Mekong subregion countries had agreed on a subregional plan of action against human trafficking.

It urged all donors to continue to provide financial and technical support for the subprogramme.

A subregional programme against child trafficking in South Asia and the Mekong Basin countries was also introduced in 1997.

ASEAN investment cooperation and the Greater Mekong Subregion arrangement have also encouraged Thai OFDI to member States.

Application for Remote Sensing Technology to the Study of Water and Sediment Movement in Chao Phraya River in Thailand with Lingdingyang Bay in China with China

The Government was working with the Governments of the Mekong subregion, with which it had signed memorandums of understanding, and with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Myanmar takes an active part in subregional cooperation initiatives such as the Ayeyawady Chao Phraya Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi sectoral Technical Cooperation and the Asia Cooperation Dialogue.

As a follow up to the forum, UNU is planning to undertake a study of the Salween river system with a view to studying the possibilities of establishing a Salween Committee along the lines of the Mekong Committee.

Forces were mobilized in all regions, extra efforts were committed to the fight, and new heights were reached in the struggle.

The King of Thailand presided over the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in May, while the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam organized the Mekong Rice Conference in Ho Chi Minh City.

Seventeen regional technical assistance projects were also approved by the Asian Development Bank for US 7 million to promote long term development in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities. This is what one to two meters of sea level rise looks like in the Mekong Delta.

20. The objective of the programme is to assist the component parts of the Mekong River Commission to design and implement a sustainable development strategy, drawing on the 1995 agreements of the riparian countries.

ESCAP continued to support the draft agreement on facilitation of cross border transport of goods and people in the Greater Mekong Subregion and the draft intergovernmental agreement of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on facilitation of international road transport.

The Myitsone and Mekong episodes highlight China s suddenly edgy relations with its southern neighbors. Its good neighbor policy, it turns out, has steered China s regional diplomacy into uncharted waters.

This included regional and national consultations in the Great Lakes region of Africa and the Mekong Delta and technical assistance to community led initiatives for improving water and sanitation.

Despite its horrendous nature and its consequences on victims, human trafficking in the Greater Mekong subregion remains by and large a profitable and almost risk free business.

Thailand has further developed its role in assisting countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion to strengthen their policies and strategies on reproductive health and HIV prevention.

A campaign to clamp down on pocketbook pornography , harmful comic books and computer games on 24 May 2004, the Press and Publication Administration and the National Anti Pornography, Anti Piracy Working Group issued notification of a nationwide campaign against pornographic pocketbooks , harmful comic books and violent computer games, which ran from 25 May to 30 June 2004.

The work carried out in this context includes several regional projects in the countries of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA), the Mekong Delta region, South Asian LDCs and Central America.

UNDP will also help the Mekong River Commission to develop the Donor Consultative Group mechanism into a forum for policy dialogue and to manage a multi donor trust fund.

Key activities will involve the provision of senior technical advisers in specific areas on short notice to provide additional inputs and reviews of technical documents for the Secretariat, the Commission and the National Committees.

Whereas riparian neighbors in Southeast and South Asia are bound by water pacts that they have negotiated between themselves, China does not have a single water treaty with any co riparian country. Indeed, having its cake and eating it, China is a dialogue partner but not a member of the Mekong River Commission, underscoring its intent not to abide by the Mekong basin community s rules or take on any legal obligations.

The Religious Leadership Initiative continued to expand in the Mekong Delta countries, while the Islamic Leadership Initiative in Indonesia undertook a comprehensive baseline survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices among young people.

These include the reports for the ASEAN subregion the greater Mekong subregion, comprising Cambodia, China, Lao People apos s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam south Asia and south Pacific

The spread of infectious diseases, such as malaria, avian flu and HIV AIDS, although prevalence is low, continues to pose a serious threat to the nation because of its land links to countries in the Greater Mekong subregion.

All start on the great Tibetan Plateau and flow in parallel through the northwest corner of the province into Southeast Asia. They are China s last pristine rivers, but are now slated for sacrifice to satisfy the country s insatiable thirst for power.

According to available figures, the campaign resulted in 4,926 seizures nationwide, sweeping up some 1.65 million pornographic pocketbooks and comic books and 2.03 million optical disks containing improper game software.

The Border Liaison Office, a cooperative mechanism along and across the borders of the Great Mekong River countries, established as part of a UNODC project, is a pioneer mechanism in the region.

Monitoring and evaluation will be based on capacity development indicators as well as verification of progress towards the actual design and implementation of a sustainable development strategy and the level to which that strategy reflects the concerns of the population of the basin.

The organization reports that two parts of Asia are rife with child trafficking the Mekong region, which includes Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam, and the South Asian countries of Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The river is 300 kilometers in length.

Worse, while promoting multilateralism on the world stage, China has given the cold shoulder to multilateral cooperation among river basin states. The lower Mekong countries, for example, view China s strategy as an attempt to divide and conquer.

Memoranda of understanding and agreements to cooperate have been reached with the following five subregional organizations in the region ASEAN, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Mekong River Commission, South Asia Co operative Environment Programme and South Pacific Regional Environment Programme

The Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) also has a long history of supporting regional institutions, such as the Asian Institute of Technology at Bangkok, the Mekong secretariat (in collaboration with UNDP) and the Aral Sea Authority.