PM Pham Minh Chinh (C) delivers his online remark to the fourth Asia-Pacific Water Summit on April 23, 2022. (Photo: VNA)

The summit is being held in Japan’s Kumamoto city until Sunday, with the participation of the Japanese Emperor and Prime Minister, and the heads of State and Prime Ministers of Asian-Pacific countries.

In his online remarks, PM Chinh underlined the need to intensify regional and international cooperation in an open, transparent, substantive and mutually beneficial manner, adding that the international community should seriously and effectively implement international commitments on water resources.

He called on Japan and developed countries to pay attention to, share with and support developing countries in finance, technology, governance, human resources training, and planning on the use of water for the effective management, sustainable exploitation and equitable allocation of water resources.

Mr. Chinh said it’s important  to boost cooperation and support the operation of organisations and cooperation mechanisms on transboundary river basin management such as the Mekong River Commission, and focus on promoting comprehensive solutions including digital transformation, encouraging the participation of businesses and people, promoting public-private cooperation, and strengthening smart water governance.

He emphasised that Vietnam always views water as a strategic resource that needs to be managed and used appropriately, safely and effectively to promote development in a green, circular and sustainable fashion.

The Government leader also affirmed that over the past time, Vietnam has actively participated in and contributed to the common effort at all levels of international cooperation, especially with countries that share water sources with it such as Laos, Cambodia and China and other foreign partners to manage, develop, protect and use water resources from rivers sustainably and efficiently and for mutual benefit.