Cambodia’s delegations pay Tet visits to Kien Giang
Representatives from Cambodian localities and agencies have paid visits to the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
Kien Giang (VNA) 🥂– Representatives from Cambodianlocalities and agencies have paid visits to theMekong Delta province of Kien Giang on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar NewYear (Tet) festival.
During their meetings with Kien Giang’s leaders, officials of the provinces of Takeo, Kampot, Preah Shihanouk, Koh Kong, and Kep, together with those from the Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie and theGeneral Department of the National Police, highlighted and appreciated cooperation results between Cambodianlocalities and Kien Giang.
They expressed their admiration for socio-economic-cultural achievements recordedby the Vietnamese locality in 2019.
Heads of the Cambodian delegations said they hope that on the basis of the finerelations and extensive cooperation between Kien Giang and Cambodianlocalities, the two sides will continue to enhance their bonds in the comingtime.
For their part, leaders of Kien Giang province wished for everlastingfriendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia in general, and betweenKien Giang and Cambodian border localities in particular.
The two sides hoped that localities along border areas of the two countrieswill support each other in many fields for mutual development.
They underlined the necessity for Vietnamese and Cambodian border localities to closely coordinate in buildinga border line of peace and friendship and addressing issues related to socialorder and security in land and sea border areas, saying that the two countries’localities need to respect and strictly implement agreements and treatiessigned between the two governments./.
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