Swiss President Guy Parmelin (R) welcomes his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Bern city on November 26 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The StatePresident’s recent visits to Switzerland and Russia achieved dual outcomes inboth bilateral and multilateral diplomatic activities, in which renovation andcreativity and consolidating the strategic trust are prominent issues.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam NewsAgency, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed that renovation and creativity is one of Vietnam’s strategies to 2030, along with the digitaleconomic transform. Switzerland is among the top countries in this field, thatis why Vietnam warmly welcomes the cooperation of the two countries’ firms inthis field.
The Swiss President said one of thepriorities of his country in cooperating with Vietnam is the building of alegal framework favourable for the effective implementation of intellectualproperty and renovation which, he said, are the factors that strongly attractSwiss investors to Vietnam.
The two leaders agreed to upgrade thebilateral 2019 document on renovation, science and technology into a protocol.
In the meetings with leadingofficials of the United Nations, the World Health Organisation, the World TradeOrganisation and the World Intellectual Property Organisation, one of themost-touched issues was the acceleration of the cooperation between Vietnam andmembers organisations of the UN in renovation, science and technology.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at their talks in Moscow on November 30 (Photo: VNA)
The talks between President Phuc andRussian President Vladimir Putin were an event of important significance in consolidating the strategic trust ofthe traditional relationship between the two countries.
President Putin said the visit created apowerful force in strengthening the bilateral comprehensive strategicpartnership, spoke highly of Vietnam’sachievements in socio-economic development and raising its prestige in theinternational arena, and affirmed Russia always takes Vietnam as its topstrategic partner in the region.
President Phuc affirmed Vietnamalways attaches importance to its traditional relations of friendship and its comprehensivestrategic partnership with Russia.
In the subsequent joint statement,the two sides affirmed their joint determination to further strengthen theircomprehensive strategic partnership to 2030, and took the consolidation of thestrategic trust as the foundation for the further expansion and strengtheningof bilateral cooperation in all the fields.In their meeting with President Phuc,other Russian leaders affirmed the success of the visit will help usher in anew period of vigorous, comprehensive, effective and sustainable development ofthe bilateral relations.
Not only in the field of diplomacy,the Vietnam – Russia strategic trust is manifested in the promotion of tradeand invesment. President Phuc raised an idea of increasing the trade revenue by15 – 20 folds, and investment by 3 folds in the time to come, and affirmedVietnam’s determination to create every favourable condition for Russian firms’investment and operation in Vietnam to match the stature and strategic trust ofthe trans-century relationship between the two nations./.
