Vietnamese, Mexican legislatures boost cooperation
Mexico City (VNA) – A delegation from Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA) led by NA Vice Chairman General Do Ba Ty made a working visit to Mexico from November 22 to December 2 to promote friendship and cooperation between the two countries and two legislative bodies.
In his meetings
with President of the Mexican Senate Pablo Escudero Morales and Vice President
of the Chamber of Deputies Alejandro Ojeda Anguiano, the NA Vice Chairman
affirmed Vietnam treasures relations with Mexico and wishes to boost the
comprehensive cooperation between the two countries.
Ty hailed the effective
cooperation between the Vietnamese NA and the Mexican Congress in the past
years and reiterated the Vietnamese NA’s support for the development of
multifaceted ties with Mexico through creating a favourable legal framework for
foreign enterprises, including those from Mexico, to do business in Vietnam.
The NA Vice
Chairman expressed his satisfaction at the frequent visits made by senior
officials of both countries and their close coordination and mutual support at
international organisations and multilateral forums like the United Nations,
the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) Forum and the East Asia - Latin
America Cooperation Forum.
He conveyed NA
Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan’s invitation to the President of the Senate and the
President of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico to visit Vietnam at an
appropriate time.
On his part, the
Mexican Congress leaders affirmed they are ready to share experience with Vietnam
in law-making, supervision and settlement of voters’ petitions as well as to use
their role to bolster bilateral cooperation in economy, trade, education,
health, culture and tourism.
They said the
two sides should devise specific solutions and recommendations to increase bilateral
trade to a level corresponding to the potential of the two countries.
Mexican Congress
leaders appreciated the role and position of the Vietnamese NA on the international
arena. They invited the Vietnamese NA Vice Chairman and his entourage to attend
a plenary session of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
During the
visit, the Vietnamese delegation also met with Senator Teofilo Torres and
president of the Mexican friendship parliamentarians’ group in the Chamber of
Deputies Claudia Corichi.
The delegation
held a working session with Mexican Defence Minister Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
and Minister of the Navy Vidal
Francisco Seasons, during which the two sides agreed to work to enhance
bilateral defence and navy ties, and towards the opening of military attaché
offices in the other country.
During all the meetings and
working sessions, Mexican legislative leaders and ministers affirmed their
support for Vietnam’s stance on addressing disputes in the East Sea by peaceful
measures in line with international law, especially the UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea, without the use of or threat to use of force while fully respecting
diplomatic and legal processes, making efforts to manage sea disputes and
maintaining peace, stability, and maritime and aviation security and safety on
the East Sea.
The Vietnamese
NA delegation also had a working session with the congress of the Puebla state,
met General Secretary of the Mexican Workers Party Alberto Anaya and laid flowers
at the Ho Chi Minh monument at the Historic Centre in Mexico City.-VNA