(VOVworld) - The seventh Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) issued a joint statement and a MGC Action Plan for 2016-2018 in Vientiane, Laos, on Sunday.

Delegates at the meeting (Source: VNA)

The event chaired by Foreign Minister Saleumxay Komasith was organized on the sidelines of the 49th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM 49) in Vientiane, Laos. The Vietnamese delegation was led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. During the meeting, the foreign ministers reviewed MGC cooperation since 2012, highlighted by the establishment of the Asian Traditional Textiles Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and the MGC scholarship program which has provided more than 900 scholarships to students from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.