Addressing the opening ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Pham BinhMinh stated the Vietnamese Party, State, and people highly value the sound neighbourliness,traditional friendship, and comprehensive cooperation with Cambodia.
He lauded the organisation of the gathering this year inBinh Phuoc and the Central Highland province of Dak Nong, the two landmarks withhistorical imprints in the countries’ people-to-people friendship.
Lauding the importance of people-to-people diplomacy, Minhsuggested the friendship organisations further run activities to deepen mutualunderstanding of the peoples, particularly youth, on the Vietnam-Cambodia relationshipserving its growth in contribution to each nation’s prosperity and the region’speace, stability and development.
Cambodian Deputy PM Men Sam An stressed that the bilateraldiplomatic relations with a history of 55 years have grown rapidly in allfields, especially in the new period.
She requested the two associations work harder inimplementing their memorandum of understanding on cooperation for 2022-2027 andthanked the Vietnamese association for its aid toward Cambodia regarding itscharity activities and support for Cambodian students in Vietnam.
The gathering featured a conference reviewing a decade offostering the countries’ friendship, and the Vietnamese association’s confermentof insignias upon Vietnamese and Cambodian individuals for their contributionto the nations’ ties./.