The Cambodian and Vietnamese news agencies have agreed to implement a technical assistance project as soon as it is approved by the Vietnam-Cambodia Inter-Governmental Committee at its meeting in Preah Sihanouk early next month.

The agreement was reached at a working session between General Director Kit Kim Huon of the Cambodian News Agency (AKP) and visiting Deputy General Director Nguyen Duc Loi of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) who is leading a VNA delegation to pay a week-long visit to Cambodia beginning on Nov. 15.

After briefing each other on their current capacity and new developments in recent years, they reviewed the implementation of technical assistance and professional cooperation agreements that were signed between the two news agencies’ leaders.

Deputy General Director Loi pledged that the VNA, in its capacity, will exert all efforts to assist AKP in training human resources as well as technical assistance to improve the latter’s professional capacity so as to meet the increasing demand for information.

AKP leader Kit Kim Huon expressed her sincere thanks to the VNA for its valuable assistance to and cooperation with AKP over more than 30 years. “This assistance is a symbol of the friendship between the two news agencies in particular and between Cambodia and Vietnam in general,” she added.

While in Cambodia, Deputy General Director Loi and his entourage had meetings with Cambodian Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam Orn and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith who highlighted VNA’s assistance to and cooperation with SPK in the past and AKP at present.

The hosts expressed the hope for continued cooperation and assistance for AKP’s implementation of its important role as a national news agency in the new situation./.