Vietnam Calls for AIPO Active Contribution to Regional Integration

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Vietnam Calls for AIPO Active Contribution to Regional Integration

Vietnam hopes that AIPO would make active contribution to boosting regional integration, especially economic integration, said Vietnamese State President Tran Duc Luong on Monday morning.

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Vietnam hopes that AIPO would make active contribution to boosting regional integration, especially economic integration, said Vietnamese State President Tran Duc Luong on Monday morning.

Luong made the remarks while addressing at the opening ceremony of the 23rd General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization (AIPO), which is scheduled to conclude on September 13.

He said that the 23rd AIPO General Assembly is taking place ata time when the region and the world are undergoing many new developments and complexities. This demands ASEAN countries to make greater efforts to move the ASEAN forward in conformity with its purposes and principles and to create favorable regional and international environment for each member country and the entire ASEAN to firmly advance into the first decades of the new Millennium.

Over the past years, all ASEAN countries have made tireless efforts for regional peace and stability through establishing and developing the friendship and good neighborliness within ASEAN andbetween ASEAN members and the rest of the world on the basis of respect for independence, sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs, mutually beneficial cooperation and settlement of differences and disputes through peaceful negotiations, Luong added.

However, he said, there remain destabilizing factors in the region. In addition, security problems, namely terrorism, drugs, women and children trafficking, piracy, etc., tend to rise, threatening regional security and stability and negatively affecting socio-economic development and people's life.

" In response to those challenges, we should reinforce our unityand cooperation within ASEAN and between ASEAN and the rest of theworld on the basis of mutual understanding, trust and respect. This is the optimal means to safeguard regional peace and stability conducive for prosperous development," Luong noted.

As legislatures, member parliaments and entire AIPO have an extremely important voice and position in the common efforts. Thisis one of the major themes in the agenda of this General Assembly,Luong said.

The eight AIPO member countries are Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Brunei and Myanmar, the other two ASEAN members, are special observers of AIPO.

The AIPO presidency is assumed by each member country in rotation every year. Vietnam has been the AIPO president country since the 22nd AIPO General Assembly held in Thailand last September.

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