The works were chosen from more than 600 ones in acompetition launched by the Cambodian Defence Ministry in response to thecampaign on composing literature and art works on the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodiafighting solidarity. The campaign was co-organised by the General PoliticalDepartment of the Vietnam People’s Army, the Royal Cambodian Army and thePeople’s Army of Laos in celebration of the 50th anniversary ofVietnam-Cambodia ties, the 40th anniversary of the signing of theVietnam-Laos Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and the 55th anniversary of Vietnam-Laos relations.
Speaking at the event, General Director of the CambodianDefence Ministry’s Defence Services Meas Savon said the competition helpsCambodian officers and soldiers improve their writing, photographing and filmingskills and understand more about the friendship between the three countries’armies.
Entries were mostly paintings, poems, stories, films andphotos, many of them praised valuable support of the Vietnamese volunteersoldiers in the fight against the Pol Pot regime, saving Cambodian people from thegenocidal catastrophe.
Vietnamese defence attaché in Cambodia Col. Nguyen AnhDung said these literature and art works will contribute to strengthening the friendshipamong Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and between Vietnam and Cambodia inparticular.-VNA