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Mekong-U.S. Partnership Joint Statement

The United States and Mekong Partner countries released a Joint Statement on the launch of the Mekong-U.S. Partnership.

Press Release, Statements, Updates • Agriculture, Connectivity, Education, Energy, Environment, Health, Infrastructure, Trafficking in Persons, Wildlife, Drugs, and Natural Resources, Transnational Crime, Water, Women’s Empowerment • Japan-US Mekong Power Partnership (JUMPP)

Strengthening Transboundary River Governance Report

The East-West Center, with support from the Mekong-U.S. Partnership, released the report from the Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers on February 25.

Event Recaps • Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Transnational Crime, Water • Mekong Water Data Initiative (MWDI)

Release of the Transboundary River Governance Conference Report: February 25

Please join the East-West Center for the release of the Report from the Indo-Pacific Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers. This webinar will feature discussion with U.S. government officials on the report, which details the findings of the October 2020 Conference that convened partners and stakeholders from across the Indo-Pacific region to share best practices and lessons learned related to the cooperative development and management of transboundary rivers.

Updates • Water • Mekong Water Data Initiative (MWDI)

United States Hosts Vietnam Webinar Series Towards Modernizing Vietnam’s Power Sector

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Energy Resources’ (ENR) Power Sector Program (PSP), in partnership with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), provided three webinars to the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV). These webinars focused on enhancing ERAV’s regulatory capacity to oversee power market reforms and grid modernization to advance the goals of the Japan-U.S.-Mekong Power Partnership (JUMPP), Mekong-U.S. Partnership (MUSP), and the Asia Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy Initiative (Asia EDGE).

Event Recaps • Energy • Power Sector Program

“Towards a Resilient and Connected Mekong:” Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Atul Keshap’s Remarks at the 2021 Friends of the Mekong Policy Dialogue

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Keshap provided opening remarks at the 2021 Friends of the Mekong Policy Dialogue on January 12, 2021.

Official remarks, Updates • Agriculture, Connectivity, Education, Energy, Environment, Health, Infrastructure, Trafficking in Persons, Wildlife, Drugs, and Natural Resources, Transnational Crime, Water, Women’s Empowerment

Why The Mekong Region Matters to the United States, ASEAN, and the Indo-Pacific

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell published an article titled “Why the Mekong Region Matters to the United States, ASEAN, and the Indo-Pacific” in the Cambodia Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP) Journal of Greater Mekong Studies.

Updates • Connectivity, Energy, Environment, Health, Infrastructure, Trafficking in Persons, Wildlife, Drugs, and Natural Resources, Transnational Crime, Water, Women’s Empowerment

The Mekong-U.S. Partnership, launched in 2020, is an expansion of the Lower Mekong Initiative and advances its goal to create integrated sub-regional cooperation among Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, with support from the United States.

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Mekong-U.S. Partnership Joint Statement

Strengthening Transboundary River Governance Report

Release of the Transboundary River Governance Conference Report: February 25

United States Hosts Vietnam Webinar Series Towards Modernizing Vietnam’s Power Sector

“Towards a Resilient and Connected Mekong:” Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Atul Keshap’s Remarks at the 2021 Friends of the Mekong Policy Dialogue

Why The Mekong Region Matters to the United States, ASEAN, and the Indo-Pacific

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The Mekong-U.S. Partnership seeks to encourage equitable, sustainable, and inclusive growth in the Lower Mekong Region.

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