US, lower Mekong countries agree on development project

PHUKET, Thailand: -- Foreign ministers from the United States and four countries in the lower Mekong basin Thursday agreed to set up a working group to develop Mekong-Mississippi cooperation.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chaired a meeting with her counterparts from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam to discuss the issue of water management in the two rivers, which are equally polluted.

Since this is the first-ever meeting of this sort, participants did not go into deep detail but explored the possibility of developing cooperation in terms of water resources, Lao Foreign Ministry spokesman Khenthong Nuanthasing said.

-- The Nation 2009-07-23

Needs China's co-operation

see http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Study-Advise...ms-t267327.html

Yes to China of course,

but this is a good step in a need direction.

A nonsensical, off-topic post has been deleted.

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Maestro

It's just another strategic Chinese pressure point that the US will exploit whenever they need to. The US government does NOT care about water quality for SE Asians.

Yes to China of course,

but this is a good step in a need direction.

Hillary discussing how the US government has failed with the Mississippi helps the Mekong, how? Don't do what we did or didn't do. Well at least that is another problem solved. Next country...