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4th Working Group on Environment Meeting
The Fourth Meeting of the Working Group on the Environment (WGE) for the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)
was sponsored by Asian Development Bank (the Bank) and hosted by the Viet Nam National Environment Agency.
The Meeting was held on 5-6 March 1998 at Hanoi Horison Hotel in Hanoi, Viet Nam.
Meeting Participants included official Government representatives from the host nation Viet Nam, Cambodia,
People's Republic of China (PRC), Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar and Thailand;
Bank staff and Consultants; representatives from international organizations (Mekong River Commission, UNDP, UNEP and World Bank),
bilateral donor agencies (International Development Research Centre, JICA, German Agency for Technical Cooperation),
and non-governmental organizations (Center for the Environment, Culture and Environment Preservation Association,
Conservation International, Organization for Industrial Spiritual and Cultural Advancement International, Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment,
Wetlands International, World Conservation Union (IUCN) and World Wide Fund for Nature);
and observers from the embassies of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland in Hanoi.
The Steering Committee for GMS environmental projects also comprises the official Government representatives to the WGE Meeting, as well as representatives of the Bank, UNEP and the MRC.
Objectives
The meeting was organized with the following objectives:
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To report on recent environmental developments in each GMS country;
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To assess the progress of the two ongoing regional technical assistance projects (RETAs);
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To report the status of a newly ADB-approved RETA and the progress of two proposed RETAs;
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To have a three-way dialogue among the GMS-WGE, the donor community, and NGOs;
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To formulate future course of action for the environmental program of the GMS; and
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To discuss issues that may be brought to the attention of the Ministers
during the Eighth Conference on Subregional Economic Cooperation in June 1998.
The Proceedings of the meeting is available as the links below:
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