Deputy PM meets with Chinese Foreign Minister

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Chairman of the Vietnam Sub-Committee in the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, had a meeting with Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Director of the Office of the CPC Central Committee’s Commission for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, and Chairman of the China Sub-Committee in the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, in Beijing on April 8.
Deputy PM meets with Chinese Foreign Minister ảnh 1Deputy PM Tran Luu Quang (L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (Photo: VNA)

Beijing (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Chairman of the Vietnam Sub-Committee in the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, had a meeting with Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Director of the Office of the CPC Central Committee’s Commission for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, and Chairman of the China Sub-Committee in the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, in Beijing on April 8.

The meeting took place during National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s ongoing visit to China.

Both sides engaged in in-depth discussions on their bilateral relationship, global and regional issues of shared concern, and agreed to effectively implement the joint statement on further deepening and elevating the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries, and building a Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance in line with six major directions agreed upon by high-ranking leaders of the two Parties and countries.

They also agreed to effectively carry out high-level exchanges and meetings across various sectors, and further uphold the role of the Bilateral Cooperation Steering Committee in monitoring the progress of realising high-level common perceptions.

The meeting highlighted cooperation in national defence and security, with a focus on strengthening strategic connectivity through railway and road infrastructure projects. The two sides vowed to expedite the opening, upgrading, and recognition of border gates and discussed piloting the construction of smart border gates to facilitate Vietnamese goods transit by rail through China to the third countries via the Asia-Europe railway.

They will increase locality-to-locality and people-to-people exchanges to solidify social foundation, and maintain coordination on global and regional issues of mutual concern. At the same time, the two countries will work closely together on border management and protection in accordance with the three legal documents on land border and control of differences at sea in line with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)./.

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