(VNA) - The 4th meeting of the ASEAN Integration Development Cooperation Forum (IDCF) took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday to discuss ways of narrowing the development gap between ASEAN member nations. The forum also debated the ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan II for the 2009-2015 period. Participants at the event also mulled over measures to strengthen cooperation between ASEAN and its dialogue partners, to narrow development gaps in the bloc as soon as possible. Also on the agenda was how to support ASEAN’s new member countries, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, to speed up their integration into the region, to realise an ASEAN Community by 2015.
The IDCF was established as the main forum for engaging ASEAN’s partners and other donors in collective talks on the IAI Work Plan. The previous IDCFs were held in 2002, 2007 and 2010