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Vietnamese, Cambodian border provinces vow to strengthen linkages, cooperation
VGP - Effective cooperation between Vietnamese and Cambodian border provinces has helped safeguard security, public order, and stability along the shared border, making contributions to promoting socio-economic development and improving living conditions for border residents.
Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son (L) and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Sokha co-chair the 13th meeting of Viet Nam–Cambodia border province cooperation and development of border provinces, Phnom Penh, November 27-28, 2025 - Photo: VGP
Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Sokha co-chaired the 13th meeting of Viet Nam–Cambodia border province cooperation and development of border provinces in Phnom Penh on November 28.
The event drew the presence of leaders from nine ministries and sectors, 10 cities and provinces, and three military regions.
Both sides hailed the strong progress in Viet Nam–Cambodia ties in recent years.
Two-way trade has averaged US$10 billion annually over the past four years and reached US$9.5 billion in the first ten months of 2025, up more than 13.5 percent from a year earlier.
The conference underscored the need to continue strengthening cooperation across a wide range of key sectors, including national defence, security, public order, and social safety; cross-border trade; investment and border gate management.
Both sides vowed to foster stronger ties in cross-border transport, infrastructure development and connectivity, land border demarcation and marker planting, agriculture, health care, energy, environment, and water resources; tourism, information, law, justice, and banking; local-level administrative management; and cultural exchanges and people-to-people ties.
Delegates pledged to encourage the border provinces' administrations to continue meeting at least once a year to review the progress and results of cooperation activities, address new challenges, and outline future directions, with a view to further enhancing cooperation and promoting development in the border localities.
The two sides also agreed to convene the 14th conference in Viet Nam in 2026.
Following the conference, a joint press communiqué affirming their exchange of views and shared determination to preserve and advance relations and cooperation between the border provinces of Viet Nam and Cambodia, in line with the motto of "friendly neighbourliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, long-term sustainability" was issued.
They reiterated their commitment to the continued building and maintenance of the Viet Nam–Cambodia border as a boundary of peace, friendship, cooperation, and sustainable development./.