Samdech Hun Sen on Monday meets with minister of Industry and Commerce of Vietnam

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen on Monday meets here with H.E. Vu Hoy Hoang, minister of Industry and Commerce of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

During the meeting, Vietnamese Minister briefed Cambodian leader over his participation as the co-chairman of the 2^nd Cambodia-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Meeting here.

He added that the bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Vietnam reached some 1.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2008, almost 10 times over the 180 million U.S. dollars in 2000, and both sides will strive to realize 2 billion U.S. dollars of bilateral trade volume in 2010.

In reply, Samdech Techo Hun Sen warmly welcomed the outcome of the above-said meeting and proposed both sides to continue their discussion and study other possibilities to further enhance the cooperation between the two countrie