Cambodian NA President concludes Vietnam visit
VOV.VN - Cambodian National Assembly President Heng Samrin on June 26 ended his official visit to Vietnam after four days with a tight schedule for talks and meetings with Vietnamese senior officials.
During the talks and meetings, both sides concurred to intensify delegation exchanges at both central and local levels for better coordination to implement their signed agreements. They will also share information and exchange experience and concrete measures to timely solve problems arising in bilateral relations in the spirit of mutual understanding and trust, and in conformity with laws of Vietnam and Cambodia, international practice and the two nations’ traditional friendship.
They consented to maintain strong relations in all Party, State and people-to-people diplomacy channels. They will go ahead with friendship activities and educate people from all walks of life, especially younger generations, on Vietnam-Cambodia solidarity, friendship and comprehensive cooperation.
The two sides consensus about continuing negotiations for the early signing of the Vietnam-Cambodia Border Trade Agreement to replace the one on Trade and Exchange of Goods and Services in Border Areas inked in 2001. The Cambodian NA expressed its backing of more measures to facilitate the licensing of Vietnam’s investment projects in Cambodia.
They pledged to further step up their cooperation in defence and security, and in combating smuggling and cross-border crimes; and promote stronger coordination in searching for and repatriating remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who were killed in action in Cambodia.
Both sides underlined the need to offer conditions for Vietnamese and Cambodian Governments as well as relevant ministries, agencies and localities to complete the construction of auxiliary border markers and poles along the common border line in 2017, and finalise related dossiers on border demarcation and marker planting in line with regulations of the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee for Border Demarcation and Marker Planting, towards signing a legal document acknowledging outcomes of the work.