Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh (L) met with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during his visit to Cambodia on 25th November 2009.Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh met respectively with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao who was attending the first Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit in Hua Hin, Thailand.
Hailing the sound Cambodia-China relations, Hun Sen said that the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has achieved fruitful results. Since the end of last year, Vice President Xi Jinping and Vice Premier Hui Liangyu have paid successive visits to Cambodia, pushing forward bilateral friendly cooperative relations. It is hoped that both sides will enhance cooperation on infrastructure construction and investment. Cambodia is ready to continue coordination and communication with China in international and regional affairs to promote cooperation and development of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Song highly praised the strong support that the Cambodian side has been offering to China over the years on issues concerning China's core interests. China and Cambodia, both developing nations, are highly complementary in economic and trade cooperation. China will as always offer help within its ability to Cambodia for common development and prosperity. The upstream and downstream countries of Lancangjiang River and Mekong River share the same interest and China is willing to work with Cambodia to push forward the economic cooperation of the Greater Mekong Sub-region for the benefit of both peoples.
Bouasone said Laos-China relations have been developing rapidly and bilateral cooperation in all areas enjoys broad common interests and a firm foundation. Both sides should make planning for future bilateral cooperation based on their own domestic development. He hoped that both sides will continue joint efforts to push bilateral ties to develop in the direction of the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries. He appreciated China's positive role in and contributions to pushing forward regional cooperation, expressing willingness to enhance coordination with China in international and regional issues.
Song expressed willingness to work with the Lao side to strengthen high-level exchanges, consolidate strategic mutual trust and expand trade cooperation in order to achieve common development. China is also ready to make joint efforts with Laos to expand humanities exchanges, increase people-to-people contacts, enhance multilateral coordination and safeguard development interests to continuously enrich the connotations of China-Laos comprehensive strategic cooperation.
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