National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung on December 12 met with Vice President of the Senate of Thailand, Surachai Liengboonlertchai, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.

Hung said he believes the visit will contribute to strengthening and accelerating friendly relations and multi-faceted cooperation between Vietnam and Thailand . It will also create new prospects for bilateral ties between the two nations’ legislative bodies as well as regional and international cooperation, he added.

Hung told the Thai guest that at his meetings with Thailand ’s Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of the Senate during his visit to the country on December 3-4, both sides agreed that the two countries’ relationship is in the finest development phase. Raising the relationship to a strategic level will be an important step to further enhance relations for the benefit of the two peoples, peace, stability and development in the region and the world.

Liengboonlertchai said he hopes the friendship and cooperative relations between the two nations’ legislative bodies will further be strengthened.

Sharing similarities, the two nations’ legislative bodies have many opportunities to increase cooperation and parliamentarian exchanges, contributing to facilitating cooperation programmes and projects between the two countries’ Governments, as well as meeting the two people’s expectations, he noted.

On the same day, a National Assembly delegation led by Deputy Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan held talks with a delegation from the Thai Senate headed by Liengboonlertchai.

The two sides discussed many important issues relating to ties between both countries. They agreed it necessary to tighten ties for the benefit of the two peoples, peace, stability and development in the region.

They also agreed to increase delegation exchanges between the two nations’ legislative bodies in the near future.

The bodies are ready to cooperate with each other and supervise the implementation of agreements signed by the two countries’ Governments, they stressed.-VNA