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Mekong anti-human trafficking officials finalize action plan

Xinhua, April 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

The 10th Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) Senior Officials' meeting concluded here Wednesday with a three-year action plan for regional cooperation in the fight against all forms of human trafficking.

"The one-and-a-half day meeting has agreed and passed the 4th COMMIT Sub-Regional Plan of Action for the period 2015 to 2018, focusing on policy and cooperation, prevention, protection, punishment, and follow-up and assessment," Cambodia's Women's Affairs Ministry Secretary of State San Arun said at the closing ceremony.

"The meeting has also finalized the 3rd COMMIT Joint Declaration, which is aimed to take all means and measures to eradicate all forms of human trafficking in the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries," she said.

According to Arun, the ministers from the GMS countries, including Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, will gather here, the capital of Cambodia, on Thursday to officially endorse the action plan and the joint declaration. Endi