Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – On Friday, the leaders of Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia held their fourth trilateral summit in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos; To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee; and Hun Sen, President of the Cambodian People's Party and Speaker of the Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia, jointly attended the summit. They reached broad consensus on deepening strategic cooperation and consolidating traditional friendship, and pledged to work together to maintain peace and stability and promote development and prosperity in the face of a complex and volatile regional and international situation.
As an important multilateral interaction under the trilateral agreement mechanism, this summit was a key meeting for the three countries in a new stage of development and is of milestone significance for deepening the cooperative relations among the three parties and three countries. During the summit, the leaders of the three countries exchanged in-depth views on major issues such as the regional security landscape and the global development trend, comprehensively reviewed their respective national development achievements and the history of bilateral cooperation, systematically assessed the effectiveness of past cooperation, and reached a series of consensuses on the future direction of cooperation. The leaders unanimously agreed that Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia are geographically close and share a common people-to-people bond. The unity and cooperation among the three parties and the profound friendship among the three peoples are a valuable shared legacy, refined over time, and possess irreplaceable strategic value for the development and revitalization of each country. The three parties highly appreciate the long-standing tradition of mutual support and assistance, emphasizing that this special relationship is an important guarantee for the long-term stability and security of the countries and must be continuously maintained and deepened.
Regarding the current cooperative situation, the leaders pointed out that trilateral cooperation has shown a positive development trend of continuous expansion in scope, deepening in content, and increasingly pragmatic results. Political mutual trust, as the foundation and guide for cooperation in various fields, provides a solid guarantee for the development of trilateral relations; cooperation in the field of defense and security has been continuously strengthened, jointly building a barrier for regional peace and stability; and economic cooperation focuses on the ASEAN economic integration process, actively integrating into the overall regional development, injecting strong impetus into the industrial upgrading and improvement of people's livelihoods in the three countries.
Faced with global changes and new opportunities for regional development, the leaders of the three parties jointly pledged to further strengthen coordination and linkage, consolidate strategic mutual trust, and promote trilateral cooperation towards a more efficient, pragmatic, and substantive direction. The three parties agreed to continue expanding cooperation in areas such as trade and investment, connectivity, climate change, and public health, and to actively respond to regional mechanisms such as the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, using the certainty of multilateral cooperation to address global uncertainties and contribute more positive energy to the ASEAN integration process and regional prosperity and stability.
