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VNA President Luong meets Cambodian leaders Vietnam is ready to share experience and co-operate with Cambodia in the fields conforming with each country's benefit and potential, said President Tran Duc Luong during his meeting with Cambodian Senate Chairman Samdech Chea Sim in Phnom Penh on November 26. The Vietnamese leader arrived in Phnom Penh capital on the morning of November 26 for a three-day official visit to Cambodia as guest of King Norodom Sihanouk. He affirmed Vietnam's persistent policy to unceasingly consolidate and strengthen the fine co-operation, traditional friendship, solidarity, and long-lasting stability with Cambodia on the basis of respect for each other's sovereignty, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equal co-operation, mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence. He expressed his pleasure at the fine development of legislative relations between the two countries, which, he said has contributed to raising mutual understanding while maintaining the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Cambodia. President Luong briefed the Cambodian Senate Chairman about Vietnam's socio-economic development. The two leaders agreed that Vietnam and Cambodia should create favourable conditions for and help each other in overcoming difficulties in order to bring bilateral relationships to a new height in the interest of both peoples and for co-operation and development in the region. President Luong said he hoped that with the fine development of bilateral relationships and under the leadership of Senate Chairman Chea Sim and National Assembly President Norodom Ranariddh, the co-operative ties between the two legislative bodies would be expanded. Chairman Chea Sim informed President Luong of the two national assemblies' co-operative activities. He said he believed that the traditional friendly and multi-faceted co-operative ties between the two neighbours would be constantly consolidated and expanded. (VNA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cambodian legislature leader welcomes Vietnamese president Cambodia's National Assembly President Prince Norodom Ranariddh on Monday said he believed that the current visit to Cambodia by Vietnam's President Tran Duc Luong would boost the co-operation and traditional neighbourly friendship between the Vietnamese and Cambodian people. Mr Ranariddh made the remark in his meeting at the Royal Palace on November 26 with President Tran Duc Luong, who arrived in Phnom Penh earlier for a three-day official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia at the invitation of King Norodom Sihanouk. The Cambodian legislature leader thanked the Vietnamese government and people for their valuable support and assistance to the Cambodian people now as before. He expressed his pleasure at the positive development of the time-honoured ties between the two neighbouring countries, including the co-operation between the two legislative bodies in recent years. President Luong, who was given a state welcome by King Norodom Sihanouk upon his arrival, spoke highly of co-operation between the National Assemblies and peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia in the recent past, thus contributing to further consolidating and strengthening the close solidarity and friendship between the two countries. President Luong said the establishment of Vietnam-Cambodia friendly parliamentarian groups in the two countries would promote joint activities between the two legislative bodies not only in the bilateral framework but also in international organisations and forums. He assured the Cambodian National Assembly leader of Vietnam's desire to constantly reinforce the Vietnam-Cambodia ties of traditional, stable and long-lasting bonds of friendship, solidarity, co-operation and good neighbourliness." This is based on the principles of respect for each other's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity; non-intervention into each other's internal affairs; non-recourse to the use of force or threat of force; not allowing any political and military forces to use one's country territory against the other's; resolving all issues relating to the two countries through peaceful negotiations, equal and mutually-beneficial co-operation, and peaceful co-existence, Mr Luong added. The President stressed Vietnam's willingness to share experience and promote co-operation with Cambodia in all areas suitable to each country's interests and capacities. He further expressed his belief that the National Assemblies of both countries would continue boosting their co-operation and increasing mutual assistance through activities of citizen education, especially for the young generations. (VNA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Policy to boost co-operative ties with Cambodia affirmed President Tran Duc Luong of Vietnam has affirmed the country's consistent policy of sustaining good neighbourliness, unity, friendship, and long-term stability with Cambodia. The Vietnamese leader was speaking to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at a reception in Phnom Penh on November 26, the first day of his three-day official visit to Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen briefed President Luong on socio-economic development in Cambodia and the results of bilateral co-operation in education-training, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, electric energy, trade, public health, tourism, transport and communications, culture, and information. Both the host and the guest expressed pleasure at the successful development of bilateral relations. President Luong noted that co-operative agreements and accords have been effectively implemented. He said he hoped that the two countries would further their partnerships in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, tourism, education-training, and energy, areas in which both sides possess potential. He pointed to a need to accelerate the operation of the joint committee on economic, cultural, and scientific-technological co-operation by outlining a programme in the above-said domains. The Cambodian leader said he hopes that the two countries will frequently exchange visits by government, National Assembly and local agencies following President Luong's current visit. He also took the occasion to thank the government and people of Vietnam for their assistance to Cambodian national defence and development in the past and at present. The Vietnamese president said he believes that the Cambodian people, under the leadership of King Norodom Sihanouk and the Royal government and headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, will realise even greater achievements in building a peaceful, independent, unified, neutral, non-aligned and prosperous nation, thus contributing to peace, stability, and development in Southeast Asia and the world. (VNA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vietnam, Cambodia sign co-operation accords Vietnam and Cambodia have signed several agreements on co-operation during President Tran Duc Luong's visit to Cambodia. They are the agreement on November 26 between the Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, the agreement on investment encouragement and protection and the agreement on trade, exchange of goods and trade service along Vietnam-Cambodia shared border. The signing ceremony was held under the witness of President Tran Duc Luong, President of the Cambodian Senate Samdech Chea Sim, President of the National Assembly Norodom Ranariddh and Prime Minister Samdech Hunsen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vietnam, Cambodia issue joint declaration A joint declaration on bilateral cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia was issued on November 26. The declaration was released following the meeting between President Tran Duc Luong and King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh. Following is the full text of the joint declaration: As neighbours, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Kingdom of Cambodia have entertained time-honoured friendly relations. Since the establishment of their diplomatic relations on June 24, 1967, Vietnam and Cambodia have consolidated, developed, and expanded their bonds of friendship and co-operation in the political, economic, cultural, educational, and other fields. These bilateral relations have been further developed on the basis of the principles contained in their Joint Communiques of 1992 and 1995. In particular, during the visit to Cambodia in June 1999 by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, His Excellency Mr Le Kha Phieu, the two countries have identified a guideline for bilateral relations in the 21st century, namely, 'traditional, stable, long-lasting bonds of friendship, solidarity, co-operation and good neighbourliness. To further achieve the above-mentioned guideline and carry their bilateral relations onto a new stage of development in the 21st century, the two sides have agreed on the Framework of Bilateral Co-operation between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Kingdom of Cambodia to include the following among other points: 1. The two sides will continue to develop their relations based on the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter and other universally recognised principles of international law, on the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence and on the principles set forth in the Treaty of Amity and Co-operation in South East Asia, especially the principles of respect for each other's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. They further reaffirmed their respect for the principles of non-interference into each other's internal affairs, of non-recourse to the use of force or threat of force, of peaceful settlement of all disputes, and not allowing one's country territory to be used by any political or military force against the other's. 2. The two sides agreed to maintain regular high-level meetings between the representatives of the two parliaments, governments, state agencies, and military forces at various levels, continue to promote both the official and people-to-people contacts between the two countries. 3. The two sides commit to strengthening co-operation and consultation between leaders of the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam and Cambodia to exchange views on bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest. They also agree to work closely with each other in the development programmes such as the Mekong sub-region, the less-developed areas along the West-East Corridor (WEC) and the 'growth triangle.' 4. They agree to strengthen co-operation in the security and military fields including the exchange of delegations and the sharing of experience in science, technology, information, and training. They commit to co-operating with each other to combat terrorism and to prevent terrorist activities against their countries. They reaffirm their co-operation in carrying out the bilateral agreement on search, excavation, and repatriation of the remains of Vietnamese army volunteers who sacrificed themselves in Cambodia during the wars. They will work closely with each other to combat trans-national organised crimes, drugs trafficking, trafficking in human beings, and other crimes. 5. The two sides reaffirm the importance of bilateral economic and commercial relations between themselves, and commit to taking measures to set up stable and long-term mechanism to further promote bilateral trade and investment, to strengthening co-operation in customs fields, to expanding co-operation in the financial and monetary matters and in other framework such as AFTA and WTO. For that end, they agree to further consolidate the existing mechanism for co-operation between them, especially the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Commission on Economic, Cultural, Scientific, and Technological Co-operation. 6. They agree to further strengthen co-operation in the fields of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy, and hydro-meteorology; to exchange experience and expertise in the fields of forest resources management and in the protection of endangered species and of the environment, especially along the common land and sea borders. 7. They agree to strengthen their co-operation to upgrade land routes and develop railway lines between the two countries. They agree to further expand civil-aviation co-operation and to encourage their respective tourism industries to take full advantage of the framework of existing multilateral tourist co-operation. 8. The two sides agree to expand co-operation on public health, to share experience, and to assist each other effectively in disease prevention and control along the border between the two countries. 9. The two sides agree to further expand their co-operation in the fields of education and training, to exchange students at university, post-university levels, and to facilitate art, cultural and sport exchanges between them. 10. The two sides continue to co-operate in facilitating nationals of one's country living in the other's country to have a normal and stable life as other foreign residents. 11. The two sides agree to encourage their border provinces to further promote their co-operation and mutual assistance in all areas of mutual interests. 12. The two sides reaffirm their determination to settle as soon as possible the border issues in the spirit of equality, mutual understanding, good neighbourliness, so as to build a borderline of lasting peace, stability and friendship between them. (VNA) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________