NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue receives outgoing Cambodian Ambassador Chay Navuth. (Photo: VNA) The top legislator lauded contributions by the ambassadorin particular and the Cambodian Embassy in general to fostering the good neighbourliness,traditional friendship, and comprehensive, sustainable and long-termcooperation between the two countries in all Party, State, Government, parliamentand people-to-people exchange channels.
Hue highlighted the impressive strides made inthe bilateral legislative ties, and congratulated Cambodia on successfully performingits Chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the 43rd General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-43).
He noted that during the ambassador’s term, two-way trade between Vietnam and Cambodia exceeded 10 billion USD, and expressed a hope that the Cambodian Government and Parliament will continue removing obstacles, creating more favourable conditions for investors and businesses of each of the two countries to operate in the other's markets.
The NA Chairman also said he hopes that on the basis of the established mechanisms, the Vietnamese and Cambodian legislatures will step up delegation exchanges at all levels
For his part, Navuth praised the Vietnameselegislature for its initiatives and active role in activities, especially law-making,and thanked the Vietnamese NA for its great support for AIPA-43 hosted by the Cambodian Parliament thisyear.
He also cited a recent workshop on experience exchangebetween friendship parliamentarians groups of Vietnam and Cambodia in Da Nangcity and the consultative meeting between the committees for external relationsof the NAs of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, as examples of the Vietnamese NA's contributions to the legislative ties between Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as betweenthe three countries.
Navuth pledged that he will, in any position, continue to work to consolidate and promote the relationship between Vietnam and Cambodiaand their legislative ties, accelerate the demarcation and markerplanting for the remaining 16% of land border as well as handle issues relatingto the legal status of people of Vietnamese origin in Cambodia./.
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