Vietnam and Australia have established a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, reflecting the depth of their bilateral ties and opening up broad prospects for more extensive, practical, and effective cooperation in the years ahead.
State President Luong Cuong and visiting Australian Governor-General Sam Mostyn emphasised the importance of maintaining the momentum of high-level exchanges and contacts across Party, State, parliamentary and locality-to-locality channels to strengthen information sharing, and consolidate political trust and mutual understanding, thereby laying a firm foundation for wider cooperation.
Chien reaffirmed Vietnam’s stance on the settlement of disputes through peaceful measures in accordance with international law, particularly the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), as well as full implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and early finalisation of a substantive, effective Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son received outgoing Australian Ambassador Andrew Goledzinowski in Hanoi on December 24.
The Vietnamese Consulate General in Sydney held a ceremony on September 17 to celebrate the 79th National Day of Vietnam (September 2), giving a panorama of the current Vietnam with dynamic integration and fast development.
Party General Secretary and State President To Lam received President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines and a high-ranking delegation of the country’s parliament, who are on an official visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi on August 27.
Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man on July 24 received President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines, who is in Vietnam to attend the funeral for General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong.
