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Key meeting to bolster riparian cooperation

Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Myanmar's Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe will jointly host the eighth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Beijing on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday. As the first new type of subregional cooperation mechanism initiated and established by the six riparian countries in 2016, the LMC has made a series of achievements, Wang said, adding that China will work with those countries to build a community with a shared future.