Myanmar State Counsellor begins official visit to Vietnam

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi began her two-day official visit to Vietnam on April 19 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Myanmar State Counsellor begins official visit to Vietnam ảnh 1Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi
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Hanoi (VNA) – Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi began hertwo-day official visit to Vietnam on April 19 at the invitation of PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

This is the first official visit to Vietnam by Aung San Suu Kyi, who is alsoMyanmar’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of the President’s Office,aiming to strengthen bilateral ties and tighten the Vietnam-Myanmarpartnership.

Her visit takes place in a context of increased political trust and cooperationbetween the two nations.

Vietnam and Myanmar set up diplomatic ties on May 28, 1975.

The two countries elevated their ties to a comprehensive cooperativepartnership during a State visit to Myanmar by General Secretary of theCommunist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong in August 2017.

They have supported each other at sub-regional, regional and internationalforums such as the United Nations, ASEAN, Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnamcooperation, Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy(ACMECS) and the Greater Mekong Sub-region.

Economic, trade and investment ties have been maintained in agriculture,fisheries, finance-banking, aviation, telecommunications, oil and gasexploration and exploitation, mining, power device production and automobilemanufacturing and assembly.

Bilateral trade hit 828.3 million USD in 2017, up 51 percent from 2016. Vietnamis the 7th biggest foreign investor in Myanmar with 70 projects worth nearly 2billion USD.

During the visit to Myanmar by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong inAugust 2017, the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade and Myanmar’sMinistry of Commerce signed a memorandum of understanding on trade cooperation.

The two countries have regularly held meetings of the joint committee onbilateral cooperation and the joint sub-committee on trade. Trade fairs havealso been held in each country to introduce products and attract investors.

In addition, bilateral security and defence relations have been tightened.Based on a defence cooperation agreement signed in 2011, the two armies havesped up all-level delegation exchanges and boosted cooperation in bordermanagement, and illegal migration and smuggling prevention.-VNA
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