6th June, 2009
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| Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng at the conference. — VNA/VNS Photo Trang Duong |
HCM CITY — Relationships between Vietnamese and Cambodian border provinces have been consolidated for the prosperity and development of both countries, said Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem in HCM City yesterday.
Addressing the 5th meeting on co-operation and development between border provinces of the two countries, Khiem said that the solidarity and friendship between Viet Nam and Cambodia was the driver for the fine development of border provinces.
"Co-operation between these provinces has progressed significantly in various fields including economics, trade, investment and national defence," said Khiem.
He called on Vietnamese and Cambodian authorities from border provinces, ministries and sectors to review their co-operation and analyse advantages and disadvantages, as well as opportunities and challenges, in order to come up with measures to make their co-operation sustainable and efficient.
"That’s the way to improve people’s living conditions, maintain border security and the common security of the two nations," said Khiem.
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng spoke highly of the traditional friendship and comprehensive linkages between the two neighbours.
He took the occasion to express his sincere thanks to Viet Nam for helping Cambodia overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime in the past.
"At present Viet Nam has enabled and encouraged Vietnamese investors to go to Cambodia to invest in trade, tourism and other areas" said Sar Kheng.
"Investment, trade, infrastructure development are now top priorities of both nations," he said.
In 2008, trade with Cambodia was recorded to be over $1 billion in value, an increase of 40 per cent compared to the previous year and accounting for about 70 per cent of the import, export turnover between the two countries. — VNS
3 comments:
kill the viet then rob them instead of begging them for $.
The border trade with our neighbors is a one-way trade. We have trade deficits with Vietnam and Thailand combined to the total of around $4 billion dollars per year. In term of trades, Cambodia is like another province of Vietnam and Thailand because we bought everything from them and sell almost nothing to them.
In recent months, the Thais stop Cambodian farmers from exporting their agricultural products to Thailand while Thai businesses keep exporting their products to Cambodia and the Cambodian authority did nothing to lodge a protest.
i khow, since khmer free from khmer rouge. the thai are getting richer and improve thier country. now the yuon are trying to do the same. they only got better becus they rob($,natural resources,etc..) us blind.
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