GMS Contents

This paper summarizes the proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the Subregional Energy Forum (SEF) in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, on 11 November 2011.

The Tenth Regional Power Trade Coordination Committee meeting (RPTCC-10) was held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 25-27 May 2011.

The Regional Investment Framework puts into operation the Strategic Framework, 2012-2022 of the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Program that was approved at the 4th GMS Summit in December 2011.

This publication is a historical summary of progress made in energy cooperation in the GMS since the beginning of the economic cooperation program in 1992.

The Greater Mekong Subregion Strategic Framework 2012–2022 builds on the substantial progress the GMS program has made and the likely global and regional trends.

A more integrated, harmonious, prosperous, and equitable Greater Mekong Subregion requires agriculture to be the lead contributing sector. Regional cooperation in the agriculture sector is guided by the Core Agriculture Support Program (CASP), which is implemented by the Working Group on Agriculture.

Under CASP Phase I (2006-2010), GMS member countries expanded agriculture trading, resulting in sizable gains in the global market.

Ministers from the governments of Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, met in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 11 December 2013 for the 19th Ministerial Conference of the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program.

The Regional Investment Framework Implementation Plan, 2014-2018 identified a pipeline of 93 high-priority projects from among the more than 200 projects included in the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Investment Framework, 2013-2022.