Cambodia, Vietnam strengthen ties in fighting human trafficking

Vietnam and Cambodia have signed an agreement on amendments and supplements to the 2005 Vietnam-Cambodia agreement on eradicating trafficking of women and children.

Vietnam’s Public Security Minister Tran Dai Quang and Cambodian Minister of Women Affairs Ing Kantha Pha Vi have signed an agreement on amendments and supplements to the 2005 Vietnam-Cambodia agreement on eradicating trafficking of women and children and protection of victims of trafficking.

Addressing the signing in Ho Chi Minh City on September 28, Quang said the signing affirmed the determination of the Vietnamese and Cambodian Governments to closely cooperate in combating the crime, contributing to ensuring building the world of peace, safety and development.

For her part, Ing Kantha Pha Vi highly valued Vietnam’s efforts and important results in the fight, and pledged to continue cooperating and assisting Vietnam in the work.

According to the Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security’s Anti-Crime Police General Department, in 2011 and the first half of this year, the Vietnamese side received Cambodia’s requests to identify 17 victims, repatriated 15 victims handed over by Cambodia, rescued 36 victims and handed over thousands of illegally-immigrating Cambodian women and children.

Vietnamese police detected 45 human trafficking cases, caught 11 people and rescued 92 victims, the department says.