Emphasis should also be gearing toward the promotion economic growth of the Southeast Asian region as a whole by strengthening the economic linkages between CLMV countries with other ASEAN countries. The strategy here is to pursue the enhancement of the competiveness among the CLMV countries, the redirection of agriculture and manufacturing growth centers to the place where relative economic exist, and the reduction of the income disparity and create employment. It would be much beneficial if the model of this type of economic integration which has been well documented in the “Ayeyawady – Chao Phraya – Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy” (ACMECS) could be vigorously pursued. As such, ACMECS focuses on six areas of cooperation namely, trade and investment facilitation, agricultural and industrial cooperation, transport linkages, tourism cooperation, human resource development, and public health.