President’s Cambodia visit helps enhance special friendship: Cambodian expert
President To Lam’s state visit to Cambodia on July 12-13 has a special significance for both nations, helping expand and strengthen their special friendship and comprehensive cooperation, according to a Cambodian expert.
Assoc.Prof.Dr Neak Chandarith, Director of the Institute for International Studies and Public Policy under the Royal University of Phnom Penh (Photo: VNA)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – President To Lam’s state visit to Cambodia on July 12-13 has a special significance for both nations, helping expand and strengthen their special friendship and comprehensive cooperation, according to a Cambodian expert.
Assoc.Prof.Dr Neak Chandarith, Director of the Institute for International Studies and Public Policy under the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), told the Vietnam News Agency that Lam’s visits to Laos and Cambodia, his first overseas trips since he took office, demonstrate Vietnam’s strategic priority of developing ties with the neighbouring countries in its foreign policy.
The Cambodia visit will create a chance for the leader to engage in discussions at the highest level, contributing to enhancing the Vietnam – Cambodia relations and cooperation across various domains, he said, adding both sides will exchange their views on and seek solutions to issues of mutual concerns.
That the Vietnamese President will lay wreaths at the Independence Monument and the Cambodia – Vietnam Friendship Monument nearby affirms the country’s respect for its traditional and historical relations with Cambodia, the official said.
He went on to say Lam’s visit also aims at bolstering the people-to-people exchanges and the people-to-people diplomacy, helping promote mutual understanding between the two peoples, stressing that Vietnam and Cambodia have worked to preserve their sound neightbourliness, comprehensive cooperation, and time-tested friendship over the past years.
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