Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister SamdechAkka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen will lead a high-ranking delegationof the Cambodian Government on an official visit to Vietnam from December 6-8.
The visitwill be made at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, according toa statement released by the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November29.
Vietnamand Cambodia officially established diplomatic relations on June 24, 1967. Thetwo nations have regularly maintained the exchange of visits at all levels.
Vietnamhas become one of Cambodia’s leading economic partners withtwo-way trade reaching nearly 3.8 billion USD in 2017, up more than 25 percentyear-on-year. The two countries are striving to raise the figure to 5 billionUSD in the coming years.
Vietnam has to date investedin 206 projects in Cambodia with combined registered capital of 3.02 billionUSD, ranking in the top five foreign investors in Cambodia. Meanwhile, Cambodia has poured 58.1 millionUSD into 18 projects in Vietnam.
In 2017, up to 835,000 Vietnamese visited Cambodia while 222,000Cambodians went on tours of Vietnam.-VNA