(ii) ASEAN Disaster Information Sharing and Communication Network, as provided for in the ASEAN Socio Cultural Community component of the Vientiane Action Programme

Separately, the Special Envoy met with the new Foreign Minister on the occasion of the tenth summit of the Association of South East Asian States (ASEAN) held in Vientiane on 29 November 2004.

UNODC will promote and develop initiatives to support the implementation of the declaration on trafficking in human beings of the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations held in Vientiane in November 2004.

Of particular importance was the Organization's continued backing of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration and implementation of the Vientiane Action Programme, which focused on accelerating ASEAN integration and narrowing the development gap among member countries.

Separately, his Special Envoy also met with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, U Nyan Win, on the margins of the Tenth Summit Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), held in Vientiane in November 2004.

The first regional training workshop was conducted by the Treaty Section in Thalat, Lao People's Democratic Republic, in February 2003 for Laotian officials, and a second workshop, for countries members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Timor Leste, was held in Vientiane in October 2003.