Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Chairman of its Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung (R) and visiting Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Kim Song Nam at their talks in Hanoi on March 25. (Photo: VNA) At the event, Trung stated that the Vietnamese Party, State,and people always treasure the traditional friendship and cooperation with theWPK, Government, and people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK).
He proposed both sides enhance exchanges and contacts at alllevels to strengthen mutual understanding and develop the ties between theirparties and countries across various fields.
Trung went on to recommend the two countries effectivelyimplement existing cooperation mechanisms, expand their cultural, art,sports, people-to-people, locality-to-locality exchanges, and strengthen theircoordination at multilateral forums.
For his part, Kim, who is leading a delegation to visitVietnam from March 25 to 28, stressed his trip is to step upthe development of the Vietnam-DPRK friendship and collaboration and to discussmeasures to strengthen the sides’ party building work.
He affirmed that the Party, Government, and people of theDPRK value the traditional friendship with Vietnam and are pleased withthe development of the relationship shared between the two parties and countries.The DPRK is ready to work with Vietnam to promote ties, he affirmed.
During the talks, the officials discussed and evaluated theresults of cooperation between the commission and the department so far. Theyconcurred on cooperation measures, including further promotion of the role of the twobodies, and effective implementation of cooperation directions that were agreed upon by Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trongand Chairman of the DPRK’s State Affairs Commission Kim Jong-un during the latter'svisit to Vietnam in 2019./.
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