(VNA): Vietnamese and Cambodian police chiefs have agreed on measures to ensure security and social order along the two countries' common border.

During their talks in Phnom Penh on April 9, Vietnamese Minister of Public Security General Le Hong Anh and Cambodian Minister of the Interior Samdech Norodom Sirivudh were of the same view that the focus of those measures is to prevent illegal immigration, the trafficking of women and children, the smuggling of goods, and counter drug-related and trans-national crime and international terrorists.

The Vietnamese and Cambodian officials exchanged information on the operations of hostile forces, who want to undermine the two nations' traditional friendship and solidarity and damage the security, social order, stability and development of the two countries.

They agreed to increase the exchange of professional experience and information to enhance the efficiency of the two ministries' co-operation, which was reflected by a plan to carry out a bilateral co-operation agreement for 2005, which was signed at the end of the talks.

Also on April 9, the second day of his four-day official visit to Cambodia, Minister Anh was received by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who held that the visit is made at a time when co-operation between the two countries has been experiencing positive developments.

He said that the visit, conducted right after Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh's official visit, provides the two ministries with an opportunity to initiate orientations for the co-operation framework discussed by the two countries' leaders.

PM Hun Sen praised the co-operation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and the Cambodian Ministry of the Interior in the recent past.

The two ministries' co-operation has brought about important results, including the organisation of regular talks and exchanges of officials' visits, especially to localities sharing the border, conducted to discuss specific issues of mutual concern. The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security has created every conceivable condition to help the Cambodian partner in personnel training in their country and in Vietnam.

The Cambodian leader said he believed the visit will open up a new form of co-operation as well as mark an important stride in the two ministries' co-operation.

He briefed his host on the positive results of his working session with Minister Sirivudh, saying the session covered a wide range of issues over which unanimity prevailed.

The Vietnamese official said the results of the working session marks a milestone in the two ministries' co-operative ties and contributes greatly to further consolidating relations between Vietnam and Cambodia./.