President Tô Lâm presents a gift to the Royal University of Phnom Penh. VNA/VNS Photo Nhan Sáng

PHNOM PENH President Tô Lâm on July 13 visited the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) within the framework of his state visit to Cambodia.

Established in 1960, it is Cambodia's oldest and largest university. It hosts around 20,000 students in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Within the framework of the higher education cooperation programme between Việt Nam and Cambodia for the 2001-25 period, Cambodia established the Institute of International Studies and Public Policy at the RUPP including the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies with the aim of further promoting cooperation between Cambodia and Việt Nam.

Cambodian students will be properly trained in Vietnamese at the faculty before considering studying in Việt Nam.

Meeting with the university’s staff, lecturers and students, the President appreciated the university’s achievements, especially in providing important and abundant human resources for the national development of Cambodia.

Lâm said that he is delighted to see Cambodia’s positive development and the growing comprehensive cooperation between Việt Nam and Cambodia, particularly education cooperation - a bright spot in the two countries’ relations.

Praising the cooperation programme between the RUPP and the Vietnam National University – HCM City in establishing a centre for Vietnamese language and Vietnamese studies, he hoped the centre will become a cradle for Cambodian and international students to learn Vietnamese language and culture to better understand and love Việt Nam and its people.

The President also thanked the RUPP for training generations of Vietnamese students in Khmer language, many of whom have contributed to cultivating the good relations between the two countries.

He also hoped that the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training will continue to cooperate closely and exchange experience with each other.

Việt Nam welcomes and is ready to receive Cambodian students in general and the RUPP students in particular to study and research in the country, he said.

On this occasion, Việt Nam's FPT Corporation gave 50 FPT Elead computer sets to the RUPP. VNS