Ho Chi Minh City is willing to step up its diverse cooperation with Cambodian localities, particularly in the areas of healthcare, education, trade promotion, and people-to-people exchange, according to a city leader.

Ho Chi Minh City is always one of the leading localities nationwide in implementing cooperative activities with Cambodia, contributing to preserving and strengthening the longstanding and traditional friendship and good neighbourliness between the two nations.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City greatly values and tries its utmost to boost ties with Cambodian localities, including the capital city of Phnom Penh as a contribution to propelling Vietnam-Cambodia relations forward.

Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen appreciated Cambodian Consul General Sok Dareth’s substantial contributions to the city’s relations with Cambodian localities, while receiving the outgoing diplomat on February 1.

VOV.VN - Phan Van Mai, chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, hosted a reception on January 31 for Sok Dareth, Cambodian Consul General in the southern city, who came to bid farewell at the end of his tenure.

The Vietnam Consulate General in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, which is in charge of providing consular services in six southwestern Cambodian localities, has operated effectively last year despite diseases and natural disasters.