Vietnam attended the 15th Informal ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the
Environment (IAMME) and the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the
Parties to the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution held in
Vientiane, Laos, on October 30-31.
The
Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and
Environment Bui Cach Tuyen made active contributions to the events which
focused on the implementation of collaboration activities in
environmental protection, that were outlined in a master plan building
the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, as well as initiatives to enhance
future cooperation.
Ministers hailed member states’
efforts in finalising the ASEAN Peatland Forests Project in
2009-2014, and implementing effectively the ASEAN Peatland Management
St rategy in 2006-2020 and the EU-funded Rehabilitation and Sustainable
Use of Peatland Forests in Southeast Asia (SEApeat) project.
Vietnam’s central imperial city of H u e was granted with the
ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City title, while Da Lat resort city
in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong received
the ASEAN certificate of recogniton for clean air.
The 13th ASEAN+3 Environment Ministers’ Meeting (with partners from
China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea), and the fourth East Asia
Summit Environment Ministers’ Meeting were also held in Vientiane
to discuss cooperation in the field of biodiversity, climate change,
environment education and technology, and building of environmetnally
sustainable cities.
Vietnam will host the 13th
AMME and the 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution in 2015.-VNA