Cambodia reaffirmed on December 18 that Cambodia always pays great attention to strengthen the friendly relations with China, stressing that it will continue to push forward the all-around development of bilateral relationship.

Cambodia's Senate President Chea Sim and Prime Minister Hun Sen met separately on Saturday with visiting Chinese delegation led by Chen Haosu, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).

Both sides highly spoke the Sino-Cambodian traditional friendly relations initiated by Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk and Chinese leaders of older generations.

Hun Sen said that the royal government of Cambodia always takes the development of Cambodian-Sino friendly relations as the important part of its foreign policy.

When talking about the issue of Taiwan, Chea Sim and Hun Sen all reaffirmed that Cambodia will continue to stick to the "one China" policy and support China's cause of reunification.

Former King Norodom Sihanouk offered the royal audience with Chen at the Royal Palace. He thanked the Chinese government and its people for their great and sincere support and assistance extended to Cambodia.

He expressed the belief that the friendships between Cambodia and China will be further strengthened and developed.

Calling China as his second hometown, Sihanouk said he was greatly impressed with the achievements made by China in various fields and the greatly improvement of China's international status, what he said will be not only benefit the interests of the Chinese people, but also benefit the peace, stability and the development of the region and the world.

Chen arrived in Phnom Penh on Friday to start his four-day visit at the invitation of Cambodia-China Friendship Association.

Source: Xinhua