Cambodia, Korea Hold 5th JC Meeting


Cambodia hosted the 5th Meeting of the Cambodia-Korea Joint Commission (JC) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) in Phnom Penh on Oct. 31.

The meeting was co-chaired by H.E. Ms. Tuot Panha, Secretary of State at the MFAIC and H.E. Chang Ho-jin, First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea (ROK).

According to a news release of the MFAIC issued this evening, the meeting reviewed the accomplishments and discussed ways to further strengthen the bilateral relations and cooperation between the two countries in various fields including politics, trade and investment, infrastructure, agriculture, labour, rural development, health, human resources development, and people-to-people exchanges, among others.

The meeting also discussed the regional and international cooperation of mutual interests under the frameworks of ASEAN-ROK, Mekong-ROK and the United Nations, as well as the situation in the Korean Peninsula.