Son reiterated Vietnam’s foreign policy ofindependence, self-reliance, and multilateralisation and diversification ofexternal relations, and that the country attaches importance to the developmentof cooperation with the US.
He appreciated Campbell’s contributions to the growth of theUS – Vietnam relations over the past many years, expressing Vietnam’s readinessfor close cooperation to further promote their comprehensive partnership forthe sake of the two countries' people, thus helping to consolidate regional and global peace,security, development, and prosperity.
He expressed his wish that the two countries will worktogether more closely on issues of common concern at regional and internationalmechanisms.
The two officials shared the view that the Vietnam – US tieshave attained many important strides in all aspects and kept developing stablyand substantively.
On the basis of the relations that both sides have madeefforts to built up over the past years and the principles of “respectingeach other’s independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political regimes”and "mutual benefit”, bilateral ties will develop more strongly in the timeahead, they added./.