NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (L) holds talks via videoconference with the RoK's NA Speaker Park Byeong-seug on June 23 (Photo: VNA) Hue stressed that Vietnamtreasures and wants to develop its cooperation and friendship with the RoK,which is one of the leading and long-term partners of the Southeast Asiancountry.
Vietnam highly values andbelieves that the RoK’s New Southern Policy will create great opportunities forthe two countries to strengthen their strategic cooperative partnership, he said.
Regarding the Korean Speaker’sproposal to elevate the bilateral relationship, which will turn 30 in 2022, toa comprehensive strategic partnership, Hue affirmed that Vietnam is ready towork with the RoK to lift their relations to a new height.
The Vietnamese leader notedwith satisfaction that despite the pandemic’s serious impacts, bilateraleconomic, trade, and investment ties have still been growing well and formedone of the drivers for their ties in other aspects.
In the current context,businesses, especially leading enterprises of the RoK, still view Vietnam as anattractive investment destination and continue to invest strongly in thecountry, he remarked.
The Chairman asked both sidesto continue enhancing connectivity between the two economies based on thesigned free trade agreements and fostering bilateral trade. He called on theRoK to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese goods, especiallyagricultural products, to enter its market to help address the trade imbalanceso as to achieve the target of 100 billion USD in bilateral trade soon.
Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue in the talks (Photo: VNA) The Vietnamese NA andGovernment highly value the role of Korean investors and will create moreconditions for them to address difficulties to make long-term and successfulinvestment in Vietnam, Hue affirmed.
On this occasion, he thankedthe RoK for assisting Vietnam in the COVID-19 combat, suggesting the twocountries to cooperate closely via the COVAX Facility to ensure theimplementation of their respective vaccine strategies.
They should consider theexchange of experts and the pilot application of vaccine passports to tourismand other activities in the time to come, he suggested.
For his part, Park saidVietnam is one of the important partners of the RoK and pointed out that morethan 8,000 Korean businesses are operating in the Southeast Asian nation.
During the talks, the twoleaders held that Vietnam and the RoK should step up bilateral cooperation andpeople-to-people exchange, considering Vietnamese - Korean families as aprecious common asset that needs to be treasured and supported.
Having suggested both sidesstrengthen cooperation in culture, sports, and education, Hue spoke highly ofcoach Park Hang-seo’s contributions to the Vietnamese men’s national footballteam, helping them to secure a berth in the third and final qualifiers of theFIFA 2022 World Cup, and described this as a symbol in the cultural exchangebetween the people of the two nations.
Vietnam and the RoK shouldalso actively support each other’s roles at multilateral forums andinternational parliamentary cooperation mechanisms for the sake of humandevelopment as well as regional and global peace and security, he said.
Hue also affirmed thatVietnam has always served as a responsible member of the internationalcommunity and actively contributed to global peace, stability, and development,including via efforts to promote the maintenance of peace on the KoreanPeninsula./.
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