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Phnom Penh, Feb 24 Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and his visiting Malaysian counterpart Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Thursday vowed to further strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation in the post-Covid-19 pandemic era for mutual benefits.The commitment was made during their around two-hour talks at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Xinhua news agency reported.Addressing a joint press conference after the meeting, Hun Sen said the discussions touched on bilateral relations and cooperation in trade and investment, defence and security, tourism, education, labour, and the post-pandemic economic recovery."We focused on cooperation in the fight against Covid-19 and vowed to further promote bilateral trade, investment, health, tourism, science and technology, and the people-to-people exchanges with the view to bolstering the post-Covid economic recovery," he said."We are also committed to strengthening cooperation in human resource development, labor, digital and green economy to achieve long-term healthy growth and sustainable development for the benefits of the two peoples," he added.According to Hun Sen, trade volume between the two countries was valued at over $500 million in 2021, up from $442 million in the year before, and Malaysia was the third largest investor to Cambodia in the last five years."We were pleased to see an increase in bilateral trade despite disruptions caused by the Covid," he said. "We hope our bilateral trade volume will continue to rise this year."Ismail Sabri said the two ASEAN members had significant room for further growth in trade and investment volumes, adding that Malaysia was interested in exploring commercial collaboration in information and communication technologies, fintech, and small and medium-sized enterprises sectors in Cambodia.He also said that Malaysia would reopen its borders for international travelers in the near future after the country achieves its high vaccination rates against the Covid."When our international borders are fully reopened, Malaysia will further increase bilateral cooperation with Cambodia in various sectors," he said.In the ASEAN framework, he fully supported Cambodia's ASEAN chairmanship in 2022, vowing to work closely with the chair to maintain the bloc's centrality, unity, peace, stability, sustainable development and prosperity.Ismail Sabri arrived in Cambodia on Wednesday for a two-day official visit.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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