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Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Duc speaks at the event.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Duc, Director of the Department of Information and Training of the General Department of Political Affairs, chaired the press meeting.

The second Vietnam - Cambodia Border Defense Friendship Exchange will take place from November 13 to 14 in Vietnam’s Tay Ninh Province and Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province. The Vietnamese delegation will be led by Defense Minister General Phan Van Giang, while the Cambodian delegation will be headed by General Tea Seiha, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense.

The exchange program will feature a series of meaningful activities, including saluting and painting border markers; planting friendship trees; conducting joint military medical exercise; inaugurating a semi-boarding primary school in Tay Ninh Province; establishing twinned residential clusters on both sides of the border; joint patrols by border management and protection forces; ground-breaking of a friendship primary school in Svay Rieng Province; and meetings and signing of cooperation documents between the two ministries.

Prior to the main activities, there will also be an exchange between young border guard officers of Vietnam and Cambodia and a free joint healthcare activity for residents on both sides of the border of the two military medical forces.

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A view of the press meeting

“Building on the success of the first edition in 2022, this upcoming exchange is one of the key defense diplomacy events in 2025 for both countries’ defense ministries and militaries. Its success will demonstrate the traditional solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia, directly contributing to strengthening political trust, collaboration, especially between border management and protection forces, local authorities, and border residents, thus building a border of peace, friendship, stability, cooperation, and development,” said General Duc.

Translated by Chung Anh