Vietnam, Cambodia step up cooperation in safeguarding border

Vietnam’s Border Guard High Command and the Royal Cambodian Army have affirmed their resolve to participate in and facilitate border demarcation and marker planting between the two countries. ​
Vietnam, Cambodia step up cooperation in safeguarding border ảnh 1Leaders of the two units sign a cooperation agreement during the talks (Source: qdnd.vn)

Phnom Penh (VNA) – Vietnam’s Border Guard High Command and the Royal Cambodian Army haveaffirmed their resolve to participate in and facilitate border demarcation andmarker planting between the two countries.

The consensus wasreached at the talks between Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien, Commander of theVietnamese Border Guard, and General Hun Manet, Deputy Commander-in-Chief ofthe Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army, inPhnom Penh on December 14.

The two sides agreed tointensify the communication work, enhance solidarity and friendship between theVietnamese and Cambodian people and create favourable conditions for residents alongthe shared borderline to develop production and stabilise their lives.

They will also increasejoint patrols, maintain talks, meetings and information exchange in order topromptly deal with issues relating to border security, and handle emergingproblems in the spirit of solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding.

At the same time, thetwo sides will tighten cooperation in the fight against crimes, terrorism,drugs and illegal cross-border trading of weapons.

At the talks, the twosides also pointed out limitations that Vietnam and Cambodia need to overcomein order to create breakthroughs in the bilateral relationship for theinterests and development target of each nation.

Chien briefed theoutcomes of cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as the borderguard forces of the two countries, especially the recent visit to Vietnam fromDecember 6-8 by Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen.

Congratulating HunManet on his appointment as Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army, Chien expressedhis hope that Hun Manet will make more contributions to the traditionalrelations between the Vietnamese Border Guard and Royal Cambodian Army.-VNA
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