3 February 2013
Xinhua Web Editor:
Liu Ranran
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is going to attend
the royal cremation ceremony of the late Cambodian King Father Norodom
Sihanouk scheduled on February 4 in Phnom Penh , Vietnamese Government
Office online reported.
Together with Nguyen Tan Dung, prime ministers and high-ranking
officials from 12 countries are expected to attend the ceremony,
including China, Brunei, France, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Sihanouk died of illness at the age of 89 in Beijing on October 15,
last year. Over 1 million people are estimated to attend the funeral.
Vietnamese media recently reported in an article about the life of
the late Cambodian King that "Norodom Sihanouk is a man of talents,
having a life to experience many ups and downs. When alive, Sihanouk was
so ebullient, active and amorous,"
Norodom Sihanouk had been trained at French schools in Vietnam' s
southern Saigon, or now known as Ho Chi Minh city, and France's Paris.
For ten years, Sihanouk was successful in making Cambodia into a
neutral country. However, he began to criticize the United States when
the war in Vietnam had been escalated, said the Lao Dong (Labor)
newspaper.
Vietnam and Cambodia established diplomatic ties in 1967. Over the
years, the Vietnam-Cambodia relations have finely developed in all
fields. Vietnam-Cambodia have a border line of 1,137 km with 10
international border gates and 12 national border gates along with
favorable river traffic which created favorable conditions for trade
between the two countries.
In the period 2001-2011, the Vietnam-Cambodia two-way trade has
increased nearly 17 times, from 169 million U.S. dollars to 2.83 billion
dollars, with the average growth rate of 23 percent per year. The
figure increased to 3.1 billion dollars in 2012, exceed the target of
2.8 billion dollars set by the two governments.
Currently, Cambodia is one of the key markets of Vietnamese exports.
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