For the prosperity and happiness of the people of Vietnam and Cambodia
After helping Cambodia defeat the Pol Pot genocidal regime, Vietnam continued to help the genuine revolution and the Cambodian people build, develop, and revive the country.
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| Cambodian people at the Victory Celebration on January 7, 1979, held on January 25, 1979 at the Olympic Stadium in the capital Phnom Penh. (Photo: VNA) |
After that great victory, with the spirit of international solidarity, Vietnam-Cambodia relations entered a period of restoration, fostering solidarity, traditional friendship, and comprehensive cooperation between the people of the two countries.
Vietnam, including Kien Giang province, continues to help the genuine revolution and the Cambodian people build, develop, and revive the country.
According to the Kien Giang Department of Foreign Affairs, after the great victory on January 7, 1979, liberating Cambodia from the Pol Pot genocidal regime, during the period 1979-1989, Kien Giang province sent nearly 200 civil and political party cadres to help the revolution in Kampot province with the spirit of "helping friends is helping yourself."
Mr. Van Cong Dau, Director of Kien Giang Department of Foreign Affairs, said that during their international mission in Cambodia, Kien Giang province officials encountered many difficulties due to the severe consequences of the genocide regime such as famine, disease, and destroyed infrastructure...
Overcoming all difficulties and challenges, experts and forces on duty supported and helped you build and consolidate the revolutionary government apparatus, stabilize people's lives, overcome the consequences of war, restore and promote production development in important economic sectors such as agriculture, industry - handicrafts and promptly resolve famine. At the same time, the forces helped you organize a medical, cultural and educational network from the province to the grassroots, restore people's trust in the Cambodian government, and increase trust in Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and cadres who wholeheartedly helped the Cambodian revolution and people to build and develop the country.
In recent years, implementing the Party's foreign policy, Kien Giang province has focused on maintaining and promoting the development of friendly relations and comprehensive cooperation with provinces bordering the Kingdom of Cambodia, building a peaceful and friendly border to serve socio-economic development, and strengthening cooperation to strengthen national defense and security to maintain stability.
Currently, Kien Giang has signed cooperation agreements with 5 provinces and cities of Cambodia including Kep, Kampot, Preah Sihanouk, Koh Kong, Phnom Penh in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, trade, health care, education, culture-sports, tourism, security-defense, people's diplomacy and searching, collecting and repatriating the remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who died during the war in Cambodia.
Leaders of Kien Giang Department of Foreign Affairs said that implementing the cooperation agreement between Kien Giang and provinces and cities of Cambodia, trade and import-export activities mainly go through Ha Tien International Border Gate and Giang Thanh National Border Gate.
From 2015 to present, the total official import and export turnover has reached more than 548 million USD, thereby expanding economic exchanges, contributing to improving the lives of people in border areas, and strengthening security and national defense.
Kien Giang province has provided electricity to some communes in Kompongtrach district (Kampot) with nearly 160 million kWh, worth about 13 million USD.
In the agricultural sector, Kien Giang province supports the construction of vegetable production models, training in vegetable and rice growing and care techniques; demonstration of low-cost rice production, and training in high-quality rice growing techniques for agricultural officials and farmers in Kep and Kampot provinces.
Along with that, Kien Giang has received and treated thousands of Cambodian patients for free; supported children of people in border provinces with especially difficult circumstances to go to school and built schools.
The province supports Vietnamese language training for 25 students of the Royal Cambodian Army and administrative staff of the four provinces of Kep, Kampot, Preah Sihanouk, and Koh Kong.
In 2018, Kien Giang University signed a cooperation agreement with the Royal University of Phnom Penh and Chea Sim Kamchaymear University on student and lecturer exchange, training and scientific research. In the period of 2018-2022, Kien Giang University provided free training for 53 Cambodian students.
The advantage of roads has created conditions for tourism businesses in Kien Giang and Kampot to open tours to take tourists through Ha Tien International Border Gate.
On holidays and traditional New Year of the two countries, leaders of the governments, armed forces and localities of the two sides organize delegations to visit each other to wish a happy New Year, express their affection and solidarity and friendship between Vietnam and Cambodia.
The authorities of the border provinces on both sides create favorable conditions for people to visit, tour, and organize cultural, artistic and sports exchange activities...
Mr. Van Cong Dau, Director of Kien Giang Department of Foreign Affairs, said that in addition to supporting activities for Cambodia's border provinces in the economic, cultural and social fields, Kien Giang province also promotes coordination activities with its friends in land border demarcation and marker planting; crime prevention, security maintenance in land border areas and sea areas; cooperation in excavating and repatriating the remains of martyrs, volunteer soldiers, and Vietnamese experts who died during the war in Cambodia; cooperation in judicial work; people-to-people diplomacy activities...
For the goal of solidarity, friendship, good neighborliness, and the implementation of comprehensive cooperation between the Governments of Vietnam and Cambodia, Kien Giang's goal in building a relationship of solidarity and friendship with neighboring provinces is "Good neighborliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, long-term sustainability," determined to work together to foster a noble friendship, comprehensive development, long-term sustainability, and bilateral cooperation, building a peaceful, stable, and developed border.
The leaders of Kien Giang province affirmed that on the basis of the history of solidarity, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, timely and selfless mutual assistance, transparency and effectiveness in the past time, Kien Giang will continue to develop strongly, consolidate and strengthen the friendly and cooperative relationship in all fields with the provinces and cities of the Kingdom of Cambodia, especially the border provinces, building a peaceful, stable and developed border, especially implementing the agreements signed by the two governments.
The province speeds up negotiations on land border demarcation and marker planting; directs functional forces to maintain coordination with neighboring forces in grasping the situation in border areas, activities of hostile forces related to security and defense, border demarcation and marker planting; promptly and appropriately resolve issues, preventing disputes from arising in border areas; and building a peaceful, friendly and stable border in the long term.
Kien Giang continues to strengthen foreign relations with the border provinces of Cambodia to create understanding, exchange experiences, and coordinate in performing the tasks of protecting political security, social order and safety on the border and border marker works between the two countries according to regulations; continue to support and help each other in the fields of economy, culture, society and tourism development.
Along with that, the province promotes people-to-people exchange activities, especially in border residential areas and clusters, to further strengthen solidarity and friendship, propagate and educate the law, strictly control the border situation, cooperate for mutual development, for the prosperity and happiness of the people of Vietnam and Cambodia./.
