The August 28 article was written by Uch Leang, deputy head of the Department of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies under the RAC’s Institute of International Relations, ahead of Vietnam’s 77th National Day (September 2).
The two countries are holding the Friendship Year 2022 and marking the 55th anniversary of their diplomatic ties.
In the writing, Uch Leang noted the historical context of bilateral relations, from the end of the Second World War in 1945, the French colonialists sending troops to re-occupy Indochina, the globe-shaking victory of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign that forced the French Government to return complete independence to Vietnam and recognise the independence of Cambodia and Laos, to Vietnam’s assistance for Cambodia’s patriotic force to topple the Pol Pot genocidal regime in 1979.
He said in that context, Cambodia and Vietnam maintained and unceasingly promoted their ties and officially set up the diplomatic relationship on June 24, 1967.
Since then, the two countries’ destinies have become intertwined, especially in the 1950s and 1970s, when Cambodia supported Vietnam’s struggle to gain national reunification and Vietnam assisted the Cambodian people to escape from the genocidal regime.