President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L) and his Singaporean host Halimah Yacob at their meeting on February 25 (Photo: VNA) In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on theoutcomes of the visit, Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung also affirmed the triphelps push up Vietnam’s strategic partnership with Singapore, consolidateinternational partners and friends and people’s trust on the advocates,policies and development future of Vietnam; and create trust from and encouragementto Singaporean firms to do long-term business and to broaden their investmentin Vietnam.
Prominent among the outcomes of the visit are that the twosides agreed on major directions to further deepen bilateral relations andcooperation in all fields; it contributes greatly to the attraction ofresources to the economic recovery; it affirms that Vietnam and Singapore aretrustable strategic partners in various regional and international issues ofmutual concern; and it manifests the Party and State’s attention to thecommunity of the Vietnamese origin in Singapore in particular and in foreigncountries in general, Dung highlighted.
On how to realise the outcomes of the visit, the officialsaid efforts should be focused on the preparations for the holding of theactivities to mark the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomaticrelations and the 10 anniversary of the bilateral strategic partnership; thecoordination with Singaporean partners in accelerating the effective implementationof the agreements signed during the visit; and the active creation of favourableconditions and environment for attracting investment and trade from Singapore.
The Foreign Ministry will make preparations to provide a goodservice for the exchanges of high-level visits between the two countries andjoin hands with relevant ministries, authorities, localities and firms incooperating with Singapore, Deputy Minister Dung stressed./.
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