Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinhand visiting Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet onDecember 12 had a conversation with lecturers and students of the Foreign TradeUniversity (FTU), one of the high-quality human resources training centre of Vietnam which has trained many Cambodian students.

Chinh highlighted the close attachment, solidarity andcooperation between the two Parties, States and peoples, and expressed his hopethat the youth of Vietnam and Cambodia will always remember the sacrifice by generationsof Vietnamese and Cambodians for independence and freedom of each countryas well as the friendship and solidarity between the two nations.

He underlined that tiesbetween Vietnam and Cambodia are growing strongly, with two-way trade reaching10.57 billion USD in 2022, making Vietnam the third largest trade partner ofCambodia.

Defence-security has been one of the key pillar in thebilateral relations, while culture, sports, tourism, health care,people-to-people and locality-to-locality cooperation have been expanded, henoted.

Particularly, bilateral partnership in education-training hasbeen promoted, with 3,000 Cambodian students studying in Vietnam, acting as animportant bridge for the Vietnam-Cambodia friendship, said the PM, hailing theeducation sectors of the two countries and the FTU in particular for showingstrong performance in the field.

PM Chinh said that human resources are one of the key factorsfor the reinforcement of the good neighbourliness, traditional friendship, andcomprehensive, sustainable and long-term cooperation between Vietnam andCambodia.

He said he hopes the FTU will continue to provide humanresources to State agencies and businesses serving foreign economic activities,including economic, trade and investment collaboration with Cambodia, while creatingoptimal conditions for students from Cambodia.

The Government will provide best conditions foruniversities to promote their role in innovation andsupplying high quality human resources for international cooperation, includingcollaboration with Cambodia, stated the PM. He said he hopes Vietnamese andCambodian students will support each other in life and study, contributingto promoting the friendship between the two nations.

For his part, PM Hun Manet emphsised the close ties amongCambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, including education and training partnership.

He said that Cambodia switched to the market economy in1993 and is focusing on comprehensively reforming its socio-economy towards thegoal of becoming an upper-middle-income country in 2030 and a high-income onein 2050.

The Cambodian Government is concentrating on fivepriorities, including human resources training, he said.

Noting that trade and investment between the two countrieshave been expanded, especially after the two sides improve infrastructureconnections, he underlined the need to further foster the connectivity betweenthe two economies. The twosides should promote border trade and collaborate with each other to boostborder economy, while encouraging and creating favourable conditions for thetwo business communities to seek partnership, he added.

PM Hun Manet reminded Cambodian and Vietnamese students tobe deeply aware of the special significance of maintaining and promoting thefriendship and long-standing friendship and solidarity between Cambodia andVietnam./.