Phnom Penh (FN), Oct. 22 – Cambodian Minister of National Defense Tea Banh, on Monday morning, led Cambodian senior military delegation to pay an official 6-day visit to China and participate in the 8th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, People's Republic of China, at the invitation of Chinese defense minister Wei Fenghe.

The visit will take place from 22-24 October 2018, and the forum itself will take place on 24-26 October 2018.

At the forum, the minister will deliver speeches at the plenary session on “Challenges and United Nations Peacekeeping Cooperation”.

According to Defense Ministry spokesman General Chum Socheat, the forum was held under the topic of building equity, reliance and security partner of win-win cooperation, and that will focus on exchanging ideas from a new approach, new perspectives of international security management, and threats and measures to terrorism.

The forum will be attended by nearly 100 military and defense leaders from the Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, Latin America, as well as international organizations, and well-known scholars.
=FRESH NEWS