Responding to this question, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang stated: “Vietnam always attaches great importance and priority to good neighborly relations, friendship, tradition, and comprehensive and sustainable cooperation with a relationship. solid and long-term relationship with Cambodia, hoping that the relations of the two countries become increasingly practical and effective for the benefit of both peoples. “
According to Ms. Hang, the relationship between the two countries has developed very positively in recent years.
Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, the two countries exchanged many important high-level delegations, including a state visit by Secretary General and President Nguyen Phu Trong in February 2019. Cambodian Prime Minister Hunsen also paid two official visits to Vietnam in December 2018 and October 2019.
The two countries also held a solemn 40-year rally on the victory day of the Southwest Border War and together with the Cambodian people to overthrow the genocide regime on July 7, 2019, coordinated to celebrate 43 years of the road to demolition. genocide.
Ms Hang also stated that the leaders of the two countries regularly exchanged calls to prevent Covid-19, maintaining border trade along the borders of the two countries. The important achievements of cooperation have been specifically demonstrated in many fields. Economic, trade and investment cooperation continued.
In 2018 and 2019, the two countries signed 21 cooperation documents, including the 1985 Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 National Border Planning Treaty and the 2015 Supplementary Treaty, the Protocol on Demarcation and Landimination. It immediately recorded the achievement of land demarcation and marker planting (so far 84%) and delivered the map of the land border between Vietnam and Cambodia in August.
According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the face of the complicated development of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Government, ministries, subsidiaries and localities in Vietnam have provided medical teams to share the difficulties in Cambodia. continue to maintain and promote cooperation in all fields; coordinate closely in international forums to solve common regional problems.
