Cambodia, Vietnam enhance security cooperation
(VOV) - The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and the Cambodian Ministry of Interior have been urged to continue their effective cooperation on law enforcement and social order maintenance over 2013—especially in adjacent border provinces.
The encouragement arose during Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang's talks with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng in Hanoi on January 4.
The two sides already plan on continuing coordinating to protect security and order in the Development Triangle (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia).
Both ministries were advised to impel their Governments to accelerate the negotiation of several agreements including extradition and prisoner transfer treaties.
Minister Quang briefed his guest on the previous cooperation plan’s outcomes in regards to ensuring national security, social order, and safety in 2012. He highlighted the two sides’ strengthened coordination and information and experience exchanges, as well as their mutual efforts against transnational crime and drug trafficking.
Quang said number of signed cooperation agreements between the two countries were also implemented effectively, including the amended bilateral agreement to prevent human trafficking, expanded cooperation in personnel training, and support facility construction in border provinces.
Sar Kheng hailed the ministries’ combined achievements in recent years as a sound base on which to broaden future collaboration.
Following the talks, the two ministries signed the 2013 cooperation plan.