Ong Sam-dat Hoon Xen receives Ong Gen. Phung Quang Thanh of the great Indochinese Federation

Cambodia PM receives Vietnam defence minister

Feb 21, 2009
BBC Monitoring

On 21 February, Cambodian Government-run Phnom Penh Television Kampuchea in Cambodian at 1200 gmt carried a two-minute video report, in its primetime evening newscast, saying, "During his three-day visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Vietnam's Defence Minister His Excellency Gen. Phung Quang Thanh and his delegation members were granted an audience by Samdech Akkeak Moha Senapakdei Decho Hun Sen to pay a courtesy call on and hold working talks with him."

Vietnamese, Cambodian militaries step up cooperation [... another step to Uncle Ho's Indochinese Federation]

PHNOM PENH, Feb 21 (VNA) – Vietnam’s Minister of Defense, General Phung Quang Thanh, signed a protocol of cooperation with his Cambodian counterpart, Tea Banh, on Feb 20.

The signing took place following the talks between the two officials on the first day of Gen. Thanh’s official visit to Cambodia.

During the meeting, they reviewed the past cooperation between the two ministries and exchanged experiences regarding the maintenance of national security and defence.

Both parties spoke positively of the sustained traditional cooperation and friendship between the two countries and two ministries and agreed to strengthen this relationship even further in the future.

During his visit, Gen. Thanh and his delegation were received by Senate President Samdech Chea Sim, Chairman of the National Assembly Samdech Heng Samrin, and the Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen.

The visiting minister laid wreaths at the Independence Tower and the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Statute in Phnom Penh.

VN defense minister on tour inspection of Indochina

March 12, 2007
Vietnamese defense minister visits Laos, Cambodia

Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh left Monday morning for official visits to Laos and Cambodia, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Thanh, also member of the Political Bureau under the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, is to visit the two neighbor countries from March 12-19.

His trips are made at the invitation of his Lao and Cambodian counterparts who are also deputy prime ministers.

Source: Xinhua