Vietnam and Cambodia are hoped to strengthen their robust collaboration across various sectors, particularly in resolving remaining border issues to transform the border area into a zone of peace, friendship, cooperation, and development.
As Cambodia is celebrating the historic January 7 Victory, many media outlets of the country have highlighted the solidarity between Cambodia and Vietnam, which significantly contributed to the victory, saving Cambodian people from the Pol Pot genocidal regime.
Vietnamese experts have joined their Cambodian peers and Cambodian youngsters a trip held by the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) to historical sites related to the Pol Pot genocidal regime in the neighbouring country to collect data and stories of this period.
Since the establishment of diplomatic ties 57 years ago (June 24, 1967-2024), Vietnam and Cambodia have continuously promoted their bilateral cooperation, a Cambodian scholar has said.
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet on June 20 presided over a ceremony at the Techo Koh Thmar X16 military historical site in Tboung Khmum province to mark the 47th commemoration day of the nation’s historical journey leading to the overthrow of the Pol Pot genocidal regime, gathering more than 3,000 local delegates and many other foreign guests.
A ceremony was held in the town of Ba Chuc, Tri Ton district, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on April 24 to commemorate people massacred by the Pol Pot genocidal regime in 1978 during the southwestern border defence war.
The victory over the Pol Pot genocidal regime on January 7, 1979 turned a new page in Cambodia's modern history, a page written by Cambodian people themselves, Dr. Chhang Youk, Executive Director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) told Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s correspondent in Phnom Penh.
High-ranking leaders and people of Vietnam and Cambodia recalled the Vietnam-Cambodia coordination to fight their common enemies during a ceremony in Hanoi on January 7 to mark the 45th anniversary of the victory of the war defending the southwestern border and, together with the Cambodian troops and people, defeating the genocidal regime (January 7, 1979 - 2024).
The new headquarters of the Central Committee of the Cambodian Veterans’ Association (CVA), funded by the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence, was inaugurated and put into use in Kien Svay district, the Cambodian province of Kandal on January 4.
Cambodia’s victory over the Pol Pot genocidal regime (January 7, 1979) demonstrates the solidarity between Vietnamese and Cambodian peoples and armies, opening up a new page for the bilateral friendship and neighbourliness, according to an article published on the website of the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC).
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) on November 9 held a get-together to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Cambodia's Independence Day (November 9, 1953 -2023), demonstrating the solidarity and friendship between the people of the city and the neighbouring country.
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has approved a proposal to build peace parks called "Techo Santepheap" in agencies, units and localities nationwide in the near future.
On the occasion of Cambodia marking the 44th anniversary of victory over the Pol Pot genocidal regime (January 7, 1979-2023), local media have published many articles highlighting its significance, the role of volunteer Vietnamese soldiers in the historical event, and the special friendship and solidarity between the two nations.
Cambodia’s January 7 Victory reflected the pure and sincere international solidarity between Cambodian and Vietnamese people, opening a new page in the nations’ fine friendship and good neighbourliness, said Uch Leang, deputy head of the Department of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies under the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC)’s Institute of International Relations.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) will rule on the final appeal motion in Case 002/02 concerning Khieu Samphan, one of the senior leaders of the Pol Pot genocidal regime, in connection with crimes against humanity, genocide and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Convention.
An in-depth article recently published on the website of the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) spotlighted the Vietnam - Cambodia friendship over the past decades.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) will pronounce an appeal judgment in Case 002 concerning former Pol Pot genocidal regime leading official Khieu Samphan on the morning of September 22.
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has stated that Vietnam and Cambodia must further strengthen solidarity, cooperation and mutual assistance to deserve the contributions and sacrifices of previous generations and meet the aspirations and interests of their people.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 20 attended a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of Cambodian PM Hun Sen’s journey to overthrow the Pol Pot genocidal regime, held in Memot district of Cambodia’s Tbuong Khmum province.
