The withdrawal of Cambodia from the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA) mechanism will not affect the relations between the three countries, as we use the country-level cooperation mechanism instead of this regional cooperation, such as the recent Trilateral Joint Training Exercise of the Three Armed Forces of Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam 2024.
The remarks were underscored by Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, President of the Senate of Cambodia, when he received a courtesy call from H.E. Gen. Phan Van Giang, Minister of the National Defence of Vietnam, at the January 7 Palace in Phnom Penh this morning.
Congratulating the success of the Trilateral Joint Training Exercise, Samdech Techo Hun Sen recommended that the Cambodian and Vietnamese Ministries of National Defence to examine the possibility of organising study visits, camping, and joint studies between military officers to strengthen relations and build mutual understanding.
The former prime minister of Cambodia also reaffirmed the Kingdom’s continued cooperation with Vietnam in the search for remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers fallen in Cambodia and in boosting trade exchange between the two neighbours.
For his part, H.E. Gen. Phan Van Giang praised Cambodia’s achievements under the leadership of the Cambodian People’s Party and reiterated Vietnam’s commitment to strengthen her cooperation with Cambodia, stressing that “the peace of one country is the peace of another country.”
The Vietnamese defence minister also briefed Samdech Techo Hun Sen on the cooperation plan between the Cambodian and Vietnamese Ministries of National Defence for 2024-2029, focusing on human resource development, education and training, border cooperation, and continued regular meetings between the two defence ministers in both bilateral and multilateral frameworks, and so on.
