PHNOM PENH, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will attend the 3rd Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held from Dec. 14 to Dec. 16 in Dali, southwestern China's Yunnan province, a Cambodian foreign ministry statement said Tuesday.
The meeting will gather foreign ministers from China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, said the statement.
"The meeting will provide a good opportunity to further promote and strengthen the mechanism and cooperation in the framework of the Lancang-Mekong and to discuss the preparation for the 2nd LMC Leaders' Meeting to be held in Cambodia in January 2018," it said.
According to the statement, the meeting is expected to adopt the joint press communique of the 3rd LMC Foreign Ministers' Meeting, a list of the projects supported by LMC Special Fund in 2017, and a hotline platform of LMC National Secretariats and Coordination Units.
The six countries along the Mekong, known as Lancang in the Chinese stretch, launched the LMC mechanism in Nov. 2015 and convened the first Leaders' Meeting in March 2016.
Five priority areas under the LMC include connectivity, production capacity, cross-border economic cooperation, water resources, agriculture and poverty reduction.
