Cambodia honours late Vietnamese Ambassador

ABO/VNA - The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia held a ceremony on August 14 to receive the Cambodian government’s Royal Order of Mahasena – Grand Officer to late Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Ngo Dien (1921-2004).

Sopheak Thavy (L), Secretary of State at Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection, on behalf of the Cambodian government, handed over the medal to Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh. (Photo: VNA).

Dien was also former Deputy Director of Vietnam News Agency, who was in charge of the agency’s bureau in Cambodia from 1995 to 1962. He served as Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia from July 1979 to November 1991.

Sopheak Thavy, Secretary of State at Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection, on behalf of the Cambodian government, handed over the medal to Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh.

(Source: VNA)