The Vietnam visit by the Mexican Labour Party (PT) National Coordinator is hoped to deepen the solidarity, friendship and wide-ranging connection between the two parties and countries.

Receiving National Coordinator Alberto Anaya Gutiérez in Hanoi on May 8, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said she expects the PT leader will do more to step up the relations between the two countries’ law-making bodies.

National Coordinator Gutiérez also works as President of the Mexico-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarian Group.

She suggested the two parliaments focus on spurring wide-ranging cooperation between the two countries and developing cooperative mechanisms between the two governments, ministries and businesses to serve a efficient, long-term and stable partnership.

The PT guest spoke of the need to boost coordination at regional and international forums as well as the sharing of law-making experience.

At a meeting with Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan, the PT leader stated that his party always backs Vietnam to protect its sovereignty and expressed his belief that the country will solve all sovereignty-related issues through peaceful negotiations.

The PT leader and his entourage are currently on a working visit to Vietnam during which they attended the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory on May 7.

Doan said she is happy to see the PT playing a more important role in its country’s development and the left-wing movement in Latin America.

On the occasion, the PT delegation presented 100 wheel-chairs to the Vietnam Children Support Fund, which will be delivered to children with disabilities.

On the day, the PT National Coordinator held a working session with Director-General of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi at the VNA’s headquarters.

The VNA chief said he is delighted at the growing cooperation between the VNA and the PT, evidenced by the PT’s support for the training of Spanish for the VNA’s staff and its publishing of materials on Vietnam’s culture and people in Latin America.

The PT leader spoke highly of the VNA’s communication role, pledging to increase its assistance to the VNA’s profession and personnel training and continue the publicity of Vietnamese people, history and culture in his country and other Spanish speaking countries.

Later, the two officials cut the ribbon to inaugurate a photo exhibition that captures Mexico’s Mexico City, Zacatecas and Monterrey by VNA photojournalists Nguyen Thang and Hoang Quang Ha.-VNA