PHNOM PEHN (Kyodo) -- A closed-door meeting on a controversial plan to build a dam on the Mekong River in Laos began Wednesday with participation from officials and experts of that country and its downstream neighbors Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
The preparatory meeting in Siem Reap on the proposed Xayaburi mainstream hydropower development project in northern Laos will be followed by a plenary session Thursday involving water resource and environment ministers of the four countries.
Both meetings on the proposed 1,260-megawatt dam, which would be constructed at a cost of $3.5 billion to generate power for consumption in Thailand and Laos, are being organized in Cambodia's northern province of Siem Reap by the Mekong River Commission Secretariat.
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