The Hanoi chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has officially set up cooperative ties with its Phnom Penh counterpart during its June 9-15 working trip to neighbouring countries.

The Hanoi and Phnom Penh young people agreed to exchange visits annually along with conducting cultural exchanges, cadre training assistance, coordination in educating traditions for young people, and forging entrepreneurial linkages.

While in Phnom Penh, Hanoi youths laid flowers at the Memorial Monument to Vietnamese volunteers fallen in Cambodia and also visited the Toul Sleng prison where the Pol Pot regime tortured and killed tens of thousands of Cambodian civilians.

In Laos, Hanoi young people and their Vientiane peers discussed future cooperative activities, including the building of a website and organisation of Vietnamese language courses for the Vientiane Youth Union.

Hanoi youths pledged to continue maintaining annual visits and organising voluntary teams to Laos, and training Lao youth union officials.

The two sides affirmed that youth cooperation of the two capital cities is important to the two countries’ youth relations as well as bilateral ties./.