On 15-16 May, 2012 in Do son, Hai Phong city, a “National Workshop and In-depth Training on the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses 1997” was held by Vietnam National Mekong Committee in collaboration with Hatfield Consultants, World Wildlife Fund-WWF and Dundee University. At the workshop, national and international consultants including Dr Alistair Rieu-Clarke, delivered presentations on the International Law on Water and related topics, content of the UN Convention 1997 and its meaning in application to the International Watercourses.
In 2006, WWF generated an initiative to co-operate with those governments who wanted to become a member of the Convention to promote others in Mekong region to approve the Convention. Earlier, 1-3 May 2012, a regional workshop among 6 Mekong countries was held in a co-ordination of WWF, Hatfield Consultants and Dundee University.
The workshop participants were international consultants who were representatives for donors, leading experts on Water from Vietnam National Mekong Committee and related bodies, representatives from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, NGOs, etc.,
