Deputy PM Bui Thanh Son to co-chair 13th Viet Nam-Cambodia Cooperation and Development Meeting

Earlier, during a phone talks on December 12, 2024 between Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son his Cambodian counterpart Prak Sokhonn, the two sides agreed to uphold bilateral cooperation mechanisms, including organizing the 21st meeting of the Joint Committee for Economic - Cultural and Scientific - Technological Cooperation and the 13th cooperation and development meeting of border provinces in 2025 in Cambodia; and work with Laos to hold a meeting between the foreign ministers of the three countries.

The 12th meeting on cooperation and development between border provinces of Viet Nam and Cambodia was co-chaired by former Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Samdech Krolahom Sar Kheng on April 25, 2023 in Tay Ninh province after the 11th meeting between the two sides in October 2021.

On April 28, 2025, Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and Cambodian Minister of Commerce Cham Nimul signed an agreement on promoting Viet Nam–Cambodia trade for the 2025–2026 period. The document plays an important role for the business communities of both countries, as it provides tariff incentives for many key goods from each side, with preferential terms even greater than those under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA).

The agreement is expected to help Viet Nam and Cambodia further leverage the complementary strengths of their two economies, tighten supply chain connectivity, and promote balanced, sustainable bilateral trade development to commensurate with the scale and potential of cooperation between the two countries.

The two-way trade turnover reached US$10.1 billion in 2024, an increase of 17.5 percent compared to the previous year.

In the first quarter of 2025, the bilateral trade hit US$3.2 billion, up 10.2 percent year-on-year. Of the figure, Viet Nam's exports to Cambodia amounted to US$1.3 billion (up 9.3 percent), while imports attained US$1.9 billion (up 10.9 percent)./.