The President of Vietnam will travel to Beijing on August 18th at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
The visit ratifies the will and the highest priority that both nations give to the consolidation and development of the bilateral Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Association to build a Community with a shared future, and will have an enormous impact on the development of relations between the Parties and the two countries in the future and in the long term, according to statements to the press by Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son
The minister predicted that the visit would be a great success and become a milestone that should open a new stage of development for friendly neighborly relations.
Bui Thanh Son added that there are hopes that To Lam’s trip to China will give continuity and further promote the good and favorable development trends of bilateral ties achieved after the historic mutual visits of the presidents of both countries in recent times.
“The trip of the President of Vietnam (to China) will also allow us to agree on directions and measures to build a strategically important Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future.” It will also promote practical cooperation, especially in areas of mutual interest such as railway connection, agricultural trade, high-quality investments, finance, and tourism. It will also open the possibility to exchange points of view on border issues “in a spirit of candor, sincerity and substance” to jointly resolve satisfactorily outstanding problems, as well as control and manage better the disagreements at sea, without letting them affect the healthy development of relations between the two States.
“Vietnam and China have made rapid and increasingly deeper and more comprehensive progress in all fields,” after more than 30 years of normalization of their ties and 15 years since the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Partnership framework in 2008, emphasized Thanh Son, who highlighted that exchanges and contacts at high levels are maintained regularly and in many flexible forms, which contributes to fostering political trust, while economic, trade and investment cooperation continues to grow with impressive figures.
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