KHÁNH HÒA – Four working groups have completed their two-day sessions as part of the first Senior Officials’ Meeting of APEC (SOM-1), which is underway in Nha Trang city, in the south central coastal province of Khánh Hòa, from February 18 to March 3. The groups include the Emergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG), Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group (IPEG), Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation (PPSTI), and Chemical Dialogue (CD). As the host of APEC 2017, Vietnam has continued participating in and making active contributions to the related events. Vietnamese ministries and agencies presented their initiatives to promote innovation, effective coordination among policy enforcement agencies, and dialogues on corruption prevention and trade fraud. Vietnam joined APEC in 1998, and hosted APEC in 2006.—VNS

Source: Viet Nam News February 20, 2017 09:08 UTC