PM urges efforts to bring Vietnam-Cambodia trade to 20 billion USD
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam always treasures the solidarity with Cambodia as well as the close-knit ties among Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during their struggles for national liberation and reunification in the past, as well as the national, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said while receiving Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hun Many in Hanoi on Friday.
 Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) receives Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hun Many in Hanoi on July 6, 2024. (Photo: VGP/Viet Bac) |
Mr. Hun Many is also a member of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) Standing Committee, Secretary-General of the CPP Central Committee’s Mass Movement Commission, Minister of Civil Service of Cambodia, and President of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia.
PM Chinh stressed the need to further improve economic cooperation; build an independent and self-reliant economy with intensive and effective integration in each country; develop such new areas as digital economy and green economy; push ahead with economic, trade, investment and transport connectivity; and work together to reach 20 billion USD in bilateral trade in the near future.
Mr. Hun Many said that his country attaches importance to relations with Vietnam and never forgets the latter’s material and spiritual support for it to escape from the genocidal regime.
He pledged to join hands with the CPP Central Committee’s Mass Movement Commission and leaders of Cambodia to continue cooperating closely with Vietnam to foster bilateral ties in a practical and effective manner, including increasing communications to raise Cambodian people’s awareness, especially the young’s, of the solidarity and friendship between the two nations.