
Minh, who is also Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan (ThePeople) Newspaper and Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association,co-chaired the dialogue, during which the two sides briefed each other on thesituation of the two Parties and countries.
They praised the policy dialogue mechanism,which, they said, has contributed to enhancing the relationship between the twocountries through the Party channel, and making the bilateral strategicpartnership more intensive, stable and substantive.
On this occasion, Minh met with secretary general ofthe German party Tobias Bank, and held in-depth discussions with leaders of theRosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy SystemsIWES.
At these meetings, he affirmed Vietnam’s consistentpolicy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation,development, and multilateralisation and diversification of foreign relations,stressing Vietnam attaches importance to its strategic partnership with Germanyand regards the country as a top partner in the European Union (EU).
Vietnam also treasures and wishes to strengthen itstraditional friendship and cooperation between the two Parties, he added.
The Germanofficials agreed on measures to enhance the friendship and cooperation betweenthe two Parties, as well as their coordination at multilateral political partyforums, for peace, the sake of people, justice and social progress.
Within the framework of the visit, Minh and hisentourage learned about industrial transformation in Sachsen-Anhalt and met withthe vice president of the state parliament, and had a working session withrepresentatives from Lausitz and Central-German Mining AdministrationCompany./.