Cambodian Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Prak Sokhon pledged to further strengthen co-operation between the two foreign ministries during his talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in Hanoi on June 22.
Deputy PM Minh asked Cambodia to provide all possible support for Vietnamese nationals living in the country, contributing to reinforcing the traditional neighbourly friendship between the two countries.
He also suggested the Cambodian foreign ministry offer more favourable policies to Vietnamese investors in Cambodia, including granting certificates of land use and concluding negotiations on the double taxation avoidance agreement, toward lifting two-way trade to 5 billion USD. On the East Sea issue, the two sides shared the view that disputes should be solved by peaceful means without using or threatening to use force in line with widely-accepted principles of international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, while abiding to the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea and working towards the early formulation of a Code of Conduct in the East Sea.
