President of the VFF Central Committee Do Van Chien (eighth from left), Deputy Prime Minister, Vice Chairwoman of the Cambodian Front’s National Council and Chairwoman of the Cambodia - Vietnam Friendship Association Men Sam An (fifth from right), and other officials at their meeting in Phnom Penh (Photo: VNA) The trip was part of activities in celebration of the 55th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties and the two countries’ Friendship Year2022.
The delegation had meetings with Cambodian King Preah BatSamdech Preah Bormneat Norodom Sihamoni, leaders of the National Assembly,Senate and Government of Cambodia, and many organisations and agencies.
Speaking at those events, President of the VFF CentralCommittee Do Van Chien affirmed that Vietnam always attaches importance to the development of traditional ties with Cambodia.
Vietnam’s consistent viewpoint is supporting an independent, peaceful,neutral and developed Cambodia. It always wishes to cooperate with Cambodia to firmlymaintain security and defence while developing independent and self-relianteconomies with extensive and effective international integration, heemphasised.
Chien also expressed his hope that the Cambodian King andleaders will support the early completion of land border demarcation and bordermarker planting so as to build a borderline of peace, friendship, andcooperation for common development.
He asked Cambodian authorities to continue assisting andresolving difficulties facing Vietnamese-origin people, promote communicationsand education to help the countries’ young people understand more about thetraditional friendship, step up transport connectivity, boost infrastructuredevelopment at border gates, and actively coordinate with Vietnam to search forand repatriate remains of Vietnam’s volunteer soldiers and experts falling downin Cambodia during wartime.
At the working session with the President of the NationalAssembly and Chairman of the National Council of the Solidarity Front for Developmentof the Cambodian Motherland Samdech Heng Samrin, the two Fronts agreed to worktogether to build and carry out an implementation plan for the memorandum ofunderstanding on the cooperation programme among the Fronts of Cambodia, Laosand Vietnam, along with the three Fronts’ joint communiqué on the outcomes ofan international conference on building the Vietnam - Cambodia borderline for2022 - 2025 to be held in Vietnam this September.
Heng Samrin applauded the fruitful multifaceted cooperationbetween the two Governments as seen in bilateral trade growth and the COVID-19combat, which has helped reopen the countries and reactivate their economic andtourism activities.
Talking to the Vietnamese delegation at a separate meeting,Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen expressed his satisfaction at thestability of bilateral relations, especially the completion of 84% of the landborder demarcation, and agreed to accelerate work on the remaining 16% inorder to have a stable borderline and facilitate cross-border travel.
The VFF delegation also met with President of the CambodianSenate Samdech Say Chhum; Deputy Prime Minister, Vice Chairwoman of the CambodianFront’s National Council and Chairwoman of the Cambodia - Vietnam FriendshipAssociation Men Sam An; and Great Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia Samdech Tep Vong.
On July 30, they had a working session with the Khmer -Vietnamese Association and visited and presented gifts to Cambodian of Vietnamese originin Phnom Penh./.
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