Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets Cambodian, Laos counterparts

Prime Minister Pham highlighted the progress made in implementing the conclusions from high-level meetings between Viet Nam and Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia, the trilateral Viet Nam -Laos-Cambodia cooperation framework, and recent high-level visits among leaders, saying that key assigned tasks have so far been basically fulfilled.

The three Prime Ministers underscored the strategic importance of the close-knit friendship, solidarity, and mutual trust among the three nations, and reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening coordination in ensuring national security, national construction and development, maintaining regular high-level meetings and exchanges across all channels, enhancing collaboration among localities, particularly border provinces, and fostering greater people-to-people exchanges.

They also underlined the effective implementation of existing cooperation mechanisms and agreements while promoting information sharing, policy alignment, and inter-agency collaboration.

The Prime Ministers agreed to strengthen security and defense cooperation, emphasizing closer coordination in border security and prevention of transnational crimes including drug trafficking, human trafficking, and money laundering.

The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to preventing any individual or force from using one country's territory to compromise the security of another, as well as working together to maintain border lines of peace, friendship, stability and development.

The leaders also agreed on penning policies and measures to further facilitate and encourage trade and investment, with particular emphasis on border trade and maximizing the potential of border gates between the three countries.

The leaders agreed to enhance transportation infrastructure connectivity and promote trilateral economic integration.

The three Prime Ministers welcomed and approved the establishment of a trilateral cooperation mechanism between their Ministers of Culture and Tourism in order to coordinate tourism planning among the three countries and implement the one journey, three destinations tourism model

The leaders also discussed various regional issues of common concern, agreeing to maintain ASEAN's solidarity and centrality in regional matters and to promote cooperation in the Mekong sub-region./.