General Phan Van Giang chairs welcoming ceremony for his Cambodian counterpart

Deputy Defense Minister Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien and Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Lieutenant General Nguyen Doan Anh attended the event.

General Phan Van Giang (left) welcoming General Tea Banh

General Tea Banh’s official visit to Vietnam aims to maintain high-level contacts, contributing to strengthening strategic trust between the two countries. This is also an opportunity for the two sides to evaluate the outcomes of bilateral defense cooperation in the past time and discuss and agree on the direction for bilateral defense ties in the coming time.

The visit takes place in the context that the defense cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia has still achieved positive results despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing to be one of the important pillars of the bilateral relationship.

General Phan Van Giang chairs the welcoming ceremony.

Over the past time, the two sides have maintained high-level meetings and contacts in flexible forms; effectively implemented contents of cooperation in education and dissemination of the friendship between the two countries and the two militaries; searched, collected, and repatriated the remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and advisors who laid down their lives when performing international service in Cambodia; effectively coordinated to ensure security and order in border area, creating favorable conditions for local socio-economic development and contributing to building a borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation, and development; well maintained collaboration between the arms and services and cooperation in military medicine and training.

The two defense ministers reviewing the guards-of-honor

Particularly in the "Vietnam-Cambodia and Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Year 2022" to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations (June 24, 1967 - 2022), two defense ministries coordinated to successfully organize many major events, having a far-reaching influence on the people of the two countries. Notable activities were the first Vietnam-Cambodia Border Defense Friendship Exchange in May 2022, the 45th anniversary of the 45th anniversary of the historical journey by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to overthrow the Pol Pot's genocidal regime (June 20, 1977- 2022) in June 2022, the annual meeting among the defense ministers of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and the first joint search and rescue exercise between the three countries' militaries in Laos in September 2022.

General Phan Van Giang introducing members of the Vietnamese delegation to General Tea Banh

General Tea Banh introducing members of the Cambodian delegation to General Phan Van Giang

The two delegations in a joint photo

The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense actively supported the Cambodian Ministry of Defense in organizing military and defense conferences during its ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2022.

Translated by Tran Hoai