As Cambodia will rotating to be
chairman of ASEAN this year, United Stated Agency for International Development
(USAID) has been prepared to provide technical assistance to Cambodia and
organized “ASEAN Economic Community Workshop: From Indonesia 2011 to Cambodia
2012” on January 9-10 in Phnom Penh.
U.S. Charge d’Affaires, a.i Jeff
Daigle said the United State is pleased to be working closely with ASEAN member
states to advance ASEAN’s economics integration goal, to facilitate trade with
ASEAN’s external partners, and to boost investment, capacity, and economic
development throughout the region.
As President Obama and ASEAN
leaders noted in third annual meeting in Bali last November, ASEAN and the
United Stated are partners in driving global economic growth. “Our closer
economics ties are important both to us and the rest of the world.”
“The United State to support many
of important efforts including the launch of the ASEAN Single Window pilot
project, significant movement on the ASEAN Trade Repository, and the first ever
dialogue between ASEAN trade and environment officials to promote green growth
in the region,” he stressed.
In 2007, United Sated created
ADVANCE program to support ASEAN vision for integration, peace and harmony in
Southeast Asia in order to strengthen security, politic, society and culture.
“We were please to promote the
establishment of an ASEAN public Private Sector Dialogue on food security,
which highlighted how critical regional trade efficiency is in ensuring that
the people of the region have adequate access to food at all the times.”
Senior Minister Cham Prasidh, Minister
of Commerce, thanked the initiate of this meeting.
Minister hoped that Cambodia
officials can absorb more experience and response their roles to run
successfully ASEAN series meeting and the vision of ASEAN.
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