(Phnom Penh): The leaders of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction received a courtesy call on the representatives of the Vietnam Rubber Industry Association in Cambodia at the Ministry’s office on the afternoon of April 4, 2024.

The representatives of the Vietnam Rubber Industry Association in Cambodia briefed the leaders of the ministry on the background, direction, work activities and operations of the Vietnam Rubber Industry Association and thanked the Ministry of Land Management as well as the Royal Government of Cambodia for facilitating Vietnamese investors to invest in Cambodia.

The representatives of the Vietnam Rubber Industry Association requested the Ministry of Land Management to help coordinate the registration of land for the Vietnam Rubber Industry Association that has invested in Cambodia legally and promised to advise Vietnamese investors to continue to consider the welfare of workers in order to strengthen confidence in Vietnamese investors.

In response, HE Say Samal stated that the Royal Government of Cambodia will continue the same old policy of maintaining friendship, good neighborliness and strengthening cooperation with Vietnam more deeply. Vietnamese investors are investors that should be taken seriously, and past investments have benefited Cambodia and Vietnam, especially providing many jobs and incomes to Cambodian citizens.

His Excellency mentioned the differences between the Royal Government’s social land concession policies in the past and the present, where in the past we focused only on water, electricity, and roads, but now we include on-site exports and tourism to connect the land, and Cambodia has been preparing to develop social land concessions into rural villages with schools, hospitals, crop cultivation, and animal husbandry, etc.

The Royal Government of Cambodia, in its 7th term, will focus on completing land registration nationwide to issue title deeds to citizens quickly, aiming to ensure the security of land tenure and create a dispute-free environment throughout the country.

As of January 2024, the Ministry has issued more than 7 million land title deeds to citizens, with the remaining