(VOVworld)-Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with a Cambodian Buddhist Group led by Venerable Tepvong, Buddhist Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia, in Hanoi on July 11.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc

At a reception for Venerable Tepvong, Phuc said Vietnam respects people’s religious freedom and always upholds the ethical and cultural values of religious belief, which is the spiritual demand of the people, and said religious followers are part of the great national unity. He also expressed the wish for further religious co-operation between Vietnam and Cambodia in the near future, helping to consolidate and strengthen the traditional friendship between the two countries.