Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on August 3 agreed to continue reinforcing and strengthening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh (L) and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (Photo: VNA)
Singapore(VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Chinese State Councilor andForeign Minister Wang Yi on August 3 agreed to continue reinforcing andstrengthening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership betweenVietnam and China.
Duringtheir meeting in Singapore on the sideline of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and otherrelated meetings, the two sides pledged to coordinate closely in organising visitsof leaders of the two Parties and States this year.
The two countries willwork together in implementing agreements and common perspectives reached bysenior leaders of the two countries, and continue strengthening cooperationamong ministries, sectors and localities.
Vietnam and China willalso actively solve existing problems in cooperation projects, and maintain thestable and positive development trend of bilateral partnership, they concurred.
Minh lauded the growthof the Vietnam-China relations over the past years, suggesting that China takemore effective measures to keep trade cooperation expansion and to reduceVietnam’s trade deficit.
He took the occasionto convey invitation to Chinese leaders to attend the World Economic Forum onASEAN Hanoi will host from September 11-13.
On the East Sea issue,Minh made it clear that it is necessary to solve the disputes in the seathrough peaceful measures in conformity with international law, especially theUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982, as well as thestrict implementation of common perspectives of leaders of the two countries.
He also stressed theneed to well control the differences, refrain from any action that complicatesthe situation and escalates disputes, along with the full and effective implementationof the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) as well asreaching the effective and binding Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) at anearly date.-VNA
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh (L) and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (Photo: VNA)