Cambodian PM appreciates Vietnam’s help in overthrowing Pol Pot genocidal regime

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has expressed his gratitude to the Vietnamese Party, State, and people for supporting him from the early days of his journey to save Cambodia from the Pol Pot genocidal regime.
Cambodian PM appreciates Vietnam’s help in overthrowing Pol Pot genocidal regime ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (L) and Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen at the event. (Photo: VNA)
Binh Phuoc (VNA) – Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has expressed his gratitude to the Vietnamese Party, State, andpeople for supporting him from the early days of his journey to save Cambodia from the Pol Pot genocidal regime.

PM Hun Sen was received by PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh in Vietnam’s southern border province of Binh Phuoc on June 20 to visit Loc Ninh district’s Loc Tan entrance road, where he firstset his foot on the Vietnamese land 45 years ago, beginning his national salvation journey.

As part of the visit, the two PMs joined a treeplanting ceremony. They also met and talked with local residents, where PM Hun Sen underscored Vietnamese people’s pure, sincere, and righteous international spirit and the specialsolidarity and friendship between Vietnam and Cambodia.

He said his first meal after arriving in Loc Ninh saved hislife. Without Vietnamese people’s assistance, there would have been no Hun Senand Cambodia as they are today, the Cambodian PM stated.

Lauding growing bilateral relations between the nationsacross all fields in the past time, the Cambodian leader said the two countries' infrastructure has been smoothly connected in this border area and they agreedto build it into a symbol of their relations via promoting bilateral cooperation in trade, investment, tourism, and culture.

PM Hun Sen said he believed that the Cambodia-Vietnam ties will be sustainable forever.

Cambodian PM appreciates Vietnam’s help in overthrowing Pol Pot genocidal regime ảnh 2The two PMs join a tree planting ceremony (Photo: VNA)
On June 20, 1977, after crossing the Cambodia - Vietnamborder and arriving in Binh Phuoc, Hun Sen, who was then a lieutenant colonelof Region 21 in eastern Cambodia, and his comrades decided to seek help fromVietnam to overthrow the Pol Pot genocidal regime to regain peace for hishomeland.

Thanks to the Vietnamese Party, State, and people’sassistance, they took gradual steps to set up the Kampuchean United Front forNational Salvation and, together with Vietnamese volunteer soldiers, completelydefeat the genocidal regime on January 7, 1979, saving millions of Cambodiansfrom the genocidal disaster./.
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