Vietnam prioritises enhancing relations with Cambodia: President
Vietnam always wants to enhance ties with Cambodia, considering it a priority in its foreign policy, President Vo Van Thuong said when receiving Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Gen. Tea Seiha in Hanoi on November 13.
President Vo Van Thuong (R) and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Gen. Tea Seiha. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam always wants to enhance tieswith Cambodia, considering it a priority in its foreign policy, President VoVan Thuong said when receiv💙ing Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National DefenceGen. Tea Seiha in Hanoi o🧜n November 13.
Speaking highly of the results of the earlier talks between the two defenceministers, President Thuong affirmed that the Vietnamese Party and State alwaysencourage, support and create favourable conditions for cooperation between thetwo armies and defence ministries to make it more practical and effective. He hoped that the two defence ministrieswould enhance information sharing and exchange views on global and regional issues, continuejointly realising existing agreements and pay attention to training officers,especially young ones. The two sides should effectively manage the shared border to build aborderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development as well as step upnegotiations on demarcation and planting of border markers on the remaining border section. The President encouraged the two defence ministries to increase military exchanges at the local, regional, and division levels, thus facilitatingthe sharing of experience in training and building the armed forces of eachcountry. He also expressed his wish that that the two sides wouldcontinue maintaining all-level exchanges, considering it an importantfoundation to beef up cooperation between the two countries. Gen. Tea Seiha, for his part, informed the host about theoutcomes of his talks with Vietnamese Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang, saying that the two sides hadlooked into ways to boost bilateral defence ties. Hailing the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence as an important partnerof the Cambodian Ministry of National Defence, he took this occasion to thank the VietnameseParty, State, army and people for their support and assistance to their Cambodian counterparts. He said in the current new term of the CambodianGovernment, there are many new members who are all striving to inherit and upholdthe achievements made by previous generations to continue nurture thetraditional friendship, comradeship and fraternity between Vietnam and Cambodia./.
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President Vo Van Thuong (R) and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Gen. Tea Seiha. (Photo: VNA) 
