Vietnamese PM to attend 2nd Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Leaders' Meeting

HANOI, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will attend the second Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Leaders' Meeting slated for Jan. 10 in Cambodia, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.

The meeting's theme is "Our River of Peace and Sustainable Development," according to Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Initiated by China in 2015, LMC consists of six countries, namely China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Lancang is the Chinese name for the upper reaches of the Mekong River, and the trunk stream stretches nearly 5,000 km through the six countries.