The solemn welcoming ceremony for General Secretary To Lam and the high-level Vietnamese delegation on their state visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia was held at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. (Photo: VOV)

The Joint Statement notes that during the visit, General Secretary To Lam held frank and substantive discussions with Cambodian leaders, focusing on further deepening the traditional friendship and expanding mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries. The two sides also exchanged views on regional and global issues of mutual concern.

The two sides reaffirmed their consistent position of attaching special importance to the good-neighborly relations, traditional friendship, and comprehensive, long-term, sustainable cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia, pledging to supporting each other for development, peace, stability, and prosperity.

General Secretary To Lam and President of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) Hun Sen witness the signing and exchange of cooperation documents between ministries, sectors, and localities of Vietnam and Cambodia. Photo: VOV

Against the backdrop of complex regional and global developments, the two sides shared a deeper common understanding that the good-neighborly and traditional friendship between the two countries is indivisible, and that mutual support for prosperity, equality, and peaceful coexistence is an enduring truth. The two sides agreed to strive to raise bilateral trade to 20 billion USD in the coming period.

Vietnam and Cambodia reaffirmed the strategic importance of strengthening ASEAN centrality and unity, and of fully and effectively implementing the ASEAN Community Vision 2045 in order to realize a resilient, innovative, dynamic, and people-centered ASEAN.

The two sides will continue to enhance close cooperation within the framework of the Mekong River Commission and other relevant mechanisms, together with countries along the Mekong river and development partners, to ensure the sustainable and effective management, utilization, development, and conservation of water resources and related resources of the Mekong River Basin.

The two sides emphasized the importance of maintaining peace, security, stability, safety, and freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea. They reaffirmed the need to strengthen mutual trust and confidence, exercise restraint, refrain from actions that may complicate the situation, and resolve disputes by peaceful means in accordance with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The two sides underscored the importance of fully and effectively implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and expressed their hope for the early conclusion of a substantive and effective Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC), consistent with international law.