Phnom Penh (VNA) – From a country devastated by war 80 years ago, Vietnam has now become an active and proactive contributor to the international community, demonstrating its increasingly important and prominent role and stature on the global stage as well as in today’s multilateral context, said a Cambodian scholar.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945-2025) and National Day of Vietnam (September 2, 1945-2025), Uch Leang, President of the Cambodian Alumni from Vietnam Association (CAVA) and Acting Director of the Asia-Africa and Middle East Research Department at the Cambodia Institute of International Relations under the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC), said that 80 years since its foundation and nearly 40 years of implementing the “Doi Moi” (Renewal) policy, Vietnam has surmounted countless difficulties and challenges to rise strongly, becoming a country with a fast-growing economy and affirming its role and stature in the region as well as in the world.
It has been integrating into the international community in an increasingly extensive and effective manner, and achieving many accomplishments of strategic significance that have created a new, open, and favourable external environment for security and development. At the same time, it has actively contributed to shaping and maintaining a peaceful and stable environment, while mobilising external resources for national development.
Overall, Vietnam has established and maintained diplomatic relations with 194 countries worldwide, and served as an active member of more than 70 international and regional organisations. The Communist Party of Vietnam has set up relations with 259 political parties in 119 countries. In particular, Vietnam has established comprehensive, strategic, and comprehensive strategic partnerships with tens of countries, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Among those it has close and all-round ties with, Cambodia, Laos, and Cuba have special relations with Vietnam. From this perspective, he noted that Vietnam has been showing an outstanding role as a trusted friend and reliable partner in the international community.
The scholar emphasised that Vietnam today has rapidly transformed, becoming a country with strong economic growth which ranks fourth in Southeast Asia in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 33rd in the world, and is ready to enter a new stage of development.
According to him, all of these form the cornerstone for the Vietnamese Party, State, people, and army to resolutely pursue the vision of turning it into a developed and high-income country by 2045, when Vietnam turns 100./.
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