The National Assemblies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLV) renewed their commitments to fostering cooperation in the CLV Development Triangle Area at a consultative meeting between the foreign affairs committees of the CLV countries in Sapa town of Lao Cai province in Vietnam from October 18-21.

“This consultative meeting ended smoothly and with a friendly atmosphere, with the chairpersons of the foreign affairs committees of the CLV from the three countries. We re-underscored the importance of fostering cooperation in the CLV Development Triangle Area for friendship, solidarity and improving people’s livelihood and development in the CLV border areas,” according to an October 21 press release from the National Assembly of Cambodia.

At the meeting, they agreed on the content of draft procedures to be submitted to the top leaders of the three National Assemblies for review and approval at the 43rd ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in Phnom Penh, which will be hosted by the Cambodian parliament.

The press release read that the draft rules of procedure will form the basis for holding a summit of the CLV National Assemblies every two years.

At the invitation of Vu Hai Ha, the chairman of Vietnam’s National Assembly's foreign affairs committee, a Cambodian delegation led by Suos Yara, chairman of the National Assembly commission on foreign affairs, International Cooperation, Propaganda and Information and the chairman of the Lao foreign affairs committee, Sanya Praseuth, attended the meeting.

The meeting was held to discuss the draft procedures for holding a summit for the CLV scheduled for 2023 for the first time in Laos according to the spirit of the visit by Cambodia’s National Assembly president Heng Samrin to Vietnam and Laos this year and the spirit of the foreign affairs committees of the CLV countries in Bali, Indonesia in March 2022.

The cooperation of the CLV National Assemblies began in 1999 when the three countries established the Development Triangle Area.