Cambodian Consul General in HCM City Im Heng addresses the get-together on July 20 (Photo: baoquankhu7.vn) HCM City (VNA) – A get-together washeld in Ho Chi Minh City on July 20 to mark the 40th anniversary of Front 779of Military Zone 7 and recalled the time the front’ soldiers had implementedinternational missions in Cambodia.
The event brought together nearly 1,000 war veterans of the front.
Colonel Ha Xuan Thanh, head of the front’s traditional liaison board, said officersand soldiers from Front 779 of Military Zone 7 excellently fulfilled internationalmissions assigned by the Party and State to save Cambodia from the genocidalregime in 1979
The front had helped Cambodia develop revolutionary forces, especially thearmed forces, to undertake the cause of national building and defence, headded.
Im Heng, Cambodian Consul General in HCM City, expressed his deep gratitude tothe Vietnamese Party, Government, voluntary experts and soldiers for supportingCambodian people to escape from the genocide, making the historical victory on January7 in 1979, opening up a new era for Cambodia.
He stressed the development of Cambodia invarious fields over the past 40 years is attributed to the close coordinationbetween the two countries’ Parties, Governments and peoples, particularly thesupport of Vietnam in Cambodia’s most difficult time of the 1980s and1990s.
The Cambodian army and people always bear inmind the valuable assistance of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers who laid downtheir lives for the liberation of Cambodia from the Pol Pot genocidal regime,he said.-VNA
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