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HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City always respects and treasures thesound relations with Cambodia’s ministries, branches and localities, helpingconsolidate the traditional neighborly friendship between the two countries,said Standing Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem.
Hosting Senior Minister and Minister of Cults and Religion of Cambodia HimChhem on March 13, Liem hailed the outcomes of the talks between the GovernmentCommittee for Religious Affairs and the Cambodian religion ministry.
He said that they show efforts of both sides to promote religious cooperation,making contributions to the traditional friendship and comprehensive collaborationbetween the two nations in general and between the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha andthe Cambodian Buddhism in particular.
Him Chhem, for his part, briefed the host of the talks with the GovernmentCommittee for Religious Affairs, saying that the two religious managementbodies outlined orientations to foster cooperative ties in 2018 as part ofefforts to consolidate solidarity and friendship between the two nations.
Expressing his impression when visiting the Cu Chi tunnel relic site, he spokehighly of Vietnamese people’s patriotism during the struggle for the nationalindependence and reunification.
He also took the occasion to thank Vietnamese people and army for supportingCambodia in escaping the Pol Pot genocide regime so Cambodian people can enjoya peaceful, stable and prosperous life today.-VNA