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Further cooperation between ASEAN member nations and with dialogue partners are necessary in combating trans-national crimes involving drug and human trafficking, terrorism and high technologies for the sake of peace, stability and development in the region.
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Quy Vuong made the statement at the opening session of the 13th ASEAN Senior Officials' Meeting on Trans-national Crime (SOMTC) and related meetings in Vietnam's central coastal Da Nang city on Wednesday.
Vietnam committed to implementing statements on combating crimes issued at ASEAN Summits and SOMTCs to successfully realize the overall plan on building the ASEAN Political-Security Community and an ASEAN Community by 2015, Vietnam's state-run news agency quoted the official as saying.
Acting as a preparatory meeting serving the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Trans-national Crimes (AMMTC), the SOMTC focuses on measures to combat terrorism and human trafficking.
Besides joint meetings, the heads of ASEAN delegations will share experience in fighting crimes in their countries and seek to boost collaboration in the area.
ASEAN's consultations and meetings with dialogue partners, including China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, the European Union and the United States will take place in a bid to work out information sharing mechanisms, programs to enhance anti-terrorism capacity and orientations for coordination in the fight against transnational crimes.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
