Building trust and promoting cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia
29/12/15
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (R) and his Cambodian
counterpart Hun Sen at the inaugural ceremony of border marker No. 275.
In recent time, the
relations between Vietnam
and Cambodia
have grown continuously, achieving a lot of giant results; the cooperation
between two countries on economy, finance, security, defense, culture,
education, tourism has been promoted and developed quickly... However, the
relation between two countries still have existed disagreements, requiring time
and efforts to resolve, especially in land
border demarcation.
The opposing and reactionary
forces in Cambodia
are always using these disagreements to incite ethnic hatred, anti-government and split
up the relation. To solve this problem, the leaders of the two countries have
been trying to settle the disagreements to build trust and promote cooperation
between the two countries in line with
the motto of “good neighborliness, traditional friendship, and comprehensive
and sustainable cooperation”.
The two countries have also
seen important results in border demarcation and marker planting activities.
On
December 26th Vietnam and Cambodia jointly held a ceremony morning in Duc Co
district of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to inaugurate their
border marker No.30 and the road connecting two checkpoints of the Le Thanh-O
Za Dao international border gate.
Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen attended the
ceremony, marking the third time of their presence at such the event, and
reflecting the two Governments’ determination and efforts to enforce their
reached treaties and agreements on territorial boundary.
“The
inauguration of marker No.30 and the road connecting two checkpoints of the Le
Thanh-O Za Dao international border gate, together with the inauguration of
marker No.275 in the afternoon mark the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee on
Land Border Demarcation and Marker Planting’s completion of defining and
building all key markers at 10 international border gate pairs along the two
countries’ borderline, and its nearly 90 percent completion of border
delimitation and border marker planting along the joint borderline,” Dung said.
It
will also help facilitate border management and cooperation in all fields,
particularly economics, trade, investment and tourism between Gia Lai and
Rattanakiri provinces and the two countries at large, he added.
For
his part, PM Hun Sen affirmed that “today’s remarkable historical achievement
will contribute to turning a clearly defined border area of the two countries
into a region of peace, friendship, comprehensive cooperation and development,
thus serving the two peoples’ peaceful and prosperous lives.
The
inauguration of border markers over the past years has confirmed the nations’
efforts to carry out measures synchronously to handle border-related issues as
soon as possible.
He
reaffirmed that the Cambodian Government is consistent in maintaining its
stance of building the shared borderline between Cambodia
and Vietnam
into a clear and concrete borderline on the basis of national and international
law.
It
will do its utmost to, together with the Vietnamese Government, turn the
borderline on maps into border markers in the fields, he added.
In
the foreseeable future, he added, both sides will work closely together to
delimit boundary in remaining areas in the principle of abiding by
international law, especially border delimitation treaties.
The
inauguration of the two border markers is of significance as it affirms the
soundness of the nations’ border demarcation and marker planting as well as
their leaders and people’s determination to complete the work soon, thus
contributing to consolidating and enhancing the bilateral time-honored
friendship./.
All comments [ 10 ]
in the past, Vietnam helped Cambodia escape from the genocide caused by Pol Pot
many Cambodian have expressed their gratitude for Vietnam's help and always wish the development in the relation between two countries
many Vietnamese people sacrificed their blood and lives for the people of Cambodia. That cann't be denied and forgotten
nowadays some Cambodian have intended to take advantage of the land border between Vietnam and Cambodia to act against their country for political purpose
in the past time, Cambodia National Rescue Party leaded by Sam Rainsy has carried out many activities against the Vietnam-Cabodia relation
as a result, some CNRP members who fiercely against the relation have been dealt by the Cambodian Govermennt
we are happy that the leaders of the two countries have been trying to settle the disagreements to build trust and promote cooperation between the two countries
Vietnam-Cabodia relation is a special one that based on mutual understanding and trust
I think some forces haven't wanted to see the development of the relation between two coutries and always seek to ways against it
I believe that nothing could harm Vietnam-Cambodia relation
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