The celebration of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of Cambodia-Vietnam diplomatic relations is a testament to the consolidation and cultivation of the fine friendship, solidarity and cooperation between the peoples.
Vietnam News Agency (VNA) quoted H.E. Mrs. Men Sam An, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection, and Chairwoman of the Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Association, as saying in her remarks at the celebration held in Hanoi on June 24.
The Cambodian DPM expressed her sincerest and most profound respect and gratitude for the support of the Vietnamese Party, State, army and people for the Cambodian side, affirming that Vietnam’s support and assistance has contributed to the development of Cambodia from a war-torn to a unified country with complete peace and development in all areas.
According to H.E. Mrs. Men Sam An, the basic completion of the border demarcation and border marker planting and joint efforts to maintain and build a borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development aim at bringing about substantive benefits for the two peoples, especially those living along the border.
For his part, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Le Minh Khai said that with the motto of “Good neighbourliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, long-term sustainability”, over the past years, Vietnam-Cambodia relations have been continuously consolidated and developed in all fields, bringing practical benefits to the two peoples, and making positive contributions to peace, stability and cooperation in the region and the world.
Regarding the current bilateral relations, he added, political ties continue to develop well. The two sides have maintained high-level contacts and exchanges and bilateral cooperation mechanisms in all channels, even in the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past two years.
The bilateral economic, trade and investment relations have also posted encouraging results. Two-way trade hit US$9.54 billion last year, up 79.1 percent year-on-year, and reached US$5.44 billion in the first five months of 2022, up 18.7 percent year-on-year. Vietnam is running 188 valid investment projects worth US$2.8 billion in Cambodia, ranking first in the ASEAN and among the top 5 in the world in terms of investment in the country. In the first three months of 2022, over 46,000 Vietnamese tourists visited Cambodia, making Vietnam the first in terms of the number of visitors to the nation.
H.E. Le Minh Khai also highlighted the good cooperation between the two neighbouring nations in the areas of security and defence, education and training, transport, culture, health and telecoms.
Source: Agency Kampuchea Press