2000 5 Decade of Greater Mekong Subregion Development Cooperation, 2000 2009 (subprogrammes 1, 4, and 5)

56 1 Decade of Greater Mekong Subregion Development Cooperation, 2000 2009 (subprogrammes 1, 4 and 5)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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).

To that end, greater cooperation on such matters in the subregion should be developed.

A pretty idyllic place on the Mekong Delta.

A pretty idyilic place on the Mekong Delta.

(a) A study on water associated diseases in the Mekong basin

Naw Kham s gang also extorted protection money from cargo ships along the Mekong River.

The lower Mekong countries, for example, view China s strategy as an attempt to divide and conquer.

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.

Yunnan is home to three great Asian rivers the Mekong, the Salween (or Nu), and the Jinsha.

Cần Thơ () is the fourth largest city in Vietnam, and the largest city in the Mekong Delta.

This is what one to two meters of sea level rise looks like in the Mekong Delta.

at birth by subregion, 1970 and 1990

urban areas by subregion, 1970 and 1990

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

Table 2. Developing Africa growth output, by subregion

He was looked upon as a Robin Hood , for the doling out of money he extorted from Mekong shipping.

The fisheries Aquatic biodiversity in the Mekong river system is the second highest in the world after the Amazon.

The Río Guaviare divides eastern Colombia into the llanos subregion in the north and the tropical rainforest, or selva, subregion in the south.

Our subregion was very much involved in those efforts.

Total fertility rates and crude birth rates by subregion,

DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT BY REGION AND SUBREGION

In addition, ECA is studying the possibility of establishing a Preferential Trade Area in North Africa as a vehicle and machinery towards greater economic cooperation and integration involving all the countries of the subregion.

We know that the dimensions and the scope of sustainable development imply major responsibilities and make it necessary that there be greater solidarity, cooperation and harmonization among the countries of the Central American subregion.

The participants recommend that Governments of the South Asian subregion

The overall security climate in the subregion is of concern.

33. Job opportunities are becoming increasingly rare in the subregion.

Among the slew of newly approved dam projects are five on the Salween, three on the Brahmaputra, and two on the Mekong.

In Laos, alluvial gold targets were evaluated and testing of sluice recovery of gold from the Mekong River is about to begin.

Uppermost in our minds is our own subregion of Central America.

II. Annual population growth rates by subregion, 1970 and 1990 ..... 136

Annual population growth rates by subregion, 1970 and 1990 Northern Southern

The Mekong Tragedy prompted China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand to launch joint patrols along the river and coordinate attempts to capture Naw Kham.

335. Members of the Committee also requested clarification on reports received concerning the displacement of populations from different regions to the Mekong Delta.

We urge UNITA to negotiate with greater firmness and thus allow the Lusaka meeting to yield the hoped for results for peace and the well being of the people of Angola as well as of the subregion.

18. The subregion undertook active trade negotiations oriented to the international market.