Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a joint press briefing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aug. 21, 2013. Cambodian and Chinese top diplomats on Wednesday pledged to maintain and further heighten bilateral ties and cooperation for the mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples. (Xinhua/Sovannara) |
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian and Chinese top diplomats
on Wednesday pledged to maintain and further heighten bilateral ties and
cooperation for the mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples.
The pledge came after a bilateral talk between Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Speaking in joint press briefing after the talk, Wang said the ties
between the two countries, cherished and nurtured by Cambodia 's late
King Father Norodom Sihanouk and the then Eminent Leaders of China in
1958, have been profoundly strengthened and developed day by day.
He said China and Cambodia are good friends, good neighbors and good partners.
"China will continue
to further strengthen friendship relations and cooperation with
Cambodia for the mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples," he
said. "China will continue to support Cambodia in social and economic
development and prevent any disturbance from outside."
Wang also expressed his congratulations
to Hor Namhong on the victory of the Cambodian People's Party of
incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen in the general election last month and
hoped that Cambodian political parties would solve remaining problems
related to the poll peacefully.
Hor Namhong said Wang's visit to Cambodia also coincided with the
celebration this year 2013 of the 55th Anniversary of the Establishment
of Diplomatic Relations between Cambodia and China and the Cambodia-China Year of Friendship.
Hor Namhong said that at Wang's invitations, he would attend the ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers meeting on Aug. 28-30 in China in order to strengthen and expand the strategic partnership of cooperation between ASEAN and China.
In addition, he would attend the first meeting of China- Cambodia
inter-governmental coordination committee, which would be held in
November in China in order to jointly implement the Action Plan on the Implementation of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation.
Wang arrived in Cambodian capital at Tuesday night for a two- day
official visit to further enhance the bilateral ties and cooperation.
Earlier in the day, he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Hun Sen
and met with Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey, president of the royalist
Funcinpec Party.
Cambodia and China have witnessed rapid development of the bilateral
relations in the last decade. The ties reached the top level of the
Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation in December, 2010.
China is the top investor in Cambodia. According to the figures of
the Council for Development of Cambodia, from 1994 to 2012, total Chinese investment in Cambodia has reached 9.17 billion U.S. dollars.
On the bilateral trade,
China is also one of the leading trading partners of Cambodia. Last
year, the bilateral trade volume accounted for 2.9 billion U.S. dollars
and it is expected to reach 5 billion U.S. dollars by 2017.
In terms of tourism, Cambodia received 334,000 Chinese visitors in
2012, up 35 percent year-on-year, and during the first six months of
this year, some 231,000 Chinese had visited Cambodia, up 55 percent
compared with the same period last year.
4 comments:
China want a new GENOCIDE in Cambodia?
We will send China to International Court.
China, a country whose ill treat its own citizen, its government is based on selectorate process, congrated CPP, which is well known by all Khmer that it was cheated, is laughable. What China know about democracy? China should be afraid of its citezen desire for democracy. It is just a mater of time that democracy is taking place in Asia Pacific, this including Vietnam.
Hun Sen and his commie pigs must go!!!
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