Pakistan to host ACD's 4th session next year

Pakistan will host the fourth Asia Co-operation Dialogue (ACD) conference in June next year.
This was announced here by Foreign Minister of Thailand Dr Surakirat Sathirathai at a news conference at the end of the third ACD conference. The decision was taken unanimously, he added.
The ACD members agreed that Pakistan would be a proper country for the next conference, since it was playing an important and active role for promoting peace, security and development in the region.
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri assured the member states that Pakistan would try to organise the conference in a best possible manner.
Pakistan, he said, considered it a great honour to arrange the meeting of important regional countries.
Talking to newsman, Kasuri said it was good news for Pakistan that it had been honoured to hold the next conference of foreign ministers from the Asian countries.
The unanimous decision, he added, was yet another success of Pakistan's foreign policy, he said, adding it showed that the international community recognised the important and responsible role that Pakistan was playing at the regional and international levels for promoting common cause.
He said: "We will try to live up to the expectations of the ACD members. We will learn from the experience of Thailand which is a co-ordinating country and China that has conducted successfully the just concluded conference."
While chairing the concluding session, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said the ACD reflected the common aspiration of Asian countries to enhance co-operation.
China was ready to develop good-neighbourly relations with the countries and expand and deepen co-operation with them in politics, economy, trade and culture, based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence, he added.
The sources said the ACD was emerging as very important regional forum. Some major countries in the world, including those from Arab countries, were representing in the ACD.
Recently, Iran had also become its member.
The fourth ACD conference will be participated by the foreign ministers from China, Japan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and a number of other Asian countries.