Cambodian Prime Minister elect Hun Manai Meets with Wang Yi: Firmly Developing a Friendly Community with China | Fate | Prime Minister
On August 13th local time, Cambodian Prime Minister elect Hun Manai met with visiting member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi in Phnom Penh.
Hong Manai stated that Cambodia's achievement of peace and stability is thanks to China's strong support, and its rapid development cannot be separated from China's selfless assistance. Thank you to the Chinese side for attaching great importance to and continuously improving the comprehensive strategic partnership between Cambodia and China. The new Cambodian government will maintain the continuity and stability of domestic and foreign policies in accordance with the major policies formulated by the ruling party, firmly develop friendship with China, and consistently promote the traditional friendship between Cambodia and China. We look forward to close high-level exchanges with China, strengthening strategic coordination, and signing a new version of the Action Plan for Building a Community with a Shared Future between China and Cambodia as soon as possible. We will promote practical cooperation in agriculture, manufacturing, economic and trade investment, tourism, and humanities to achieve more results, and build a better community with a shared future between Cambodia and China.
Wang Yi congratulated Hong Manai on being elected as the leader of the new leadership team in Cambodia with a high number of votes, and expressed that China and Cambodia are good friends who share hardships and are sincere and trustworthy brothers. The traditional friendship between China and Cambodia, carefully cultivated by the leaders of the two countries through generations, has undergone international changes and is unbreakable. It has been proven that Cambodia's friendly policy towards China fully aligns with the fundamental and long-term interests of both countries. China is willing to establish close contacts with the new Cambodian government, keep in mind its original intention, maintain friendship, and work together to deepen and solidify the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Cambodia, opening up a new era of high-quality, high-level, and high standard China Cambodia community with a shared future.
Wang Yi said that China is willing to make good preparations for high-level exchanges with Cambodia in the next stage, better align the "the Belt and Road" initiative and the "five corner strategy" proposed by the Cambodian government, and help Cambodia accelerate industrialization and agricultural modernization. Both sides need to strengthen the exchange of experience in governing the country, promote law enforcement and security cooperation, organize a series of activities for the "China Cambodia Friendship Year", expand cultural, youth, and local friendly city exchanges between the two countries, and further consolidate the public opinion foundation of China Cambodia friendship.