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| Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son received Mr. Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Chairman of the TBI Institute. |
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son expressed his delight at the positive development of the Vietnam-UK strategic partnership and appreciated the UK's interest in promoting cooperation with countries in the Asia- Pacific region, including Vietnam. The Vietnam-UK cooperative relationship is at its best stage.
The UK is the European country with the most active high-level delegation exchanges with Vietnam. Two-way trade has regained growth momentum thanks to taking advantage of the Vietnam-UK Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA). Trade turnover in 2023 reached 7.1 billion USD, up 4.4% compared to 2022; The UK is the second largest European FDI investor in Vietnam with a total registered capital of more than 4 billion USD. Bilateral cooperation in areas such as climate change response,education and training, science and technology, and health continues to be promoted.
In particular, in the context of 2024 being the UK's general election year, Minister Bui Thanh Son expressed hope that bilateral relations will continue to develop well on the basis of the Strategic Partnership between the two countries.
Minister Bui Thanh Son highly appreciated Mr. Tony Blair's contributions during his term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007) to the relationship between the two countries.
Emphasizing the hope that Mr. Tony Blair - a prestigious member of British politics in general and the Labour Party in particular, will continue to pay attention and contribute to promoting the Vietnam-UK partnership in all fields, especially development cooperation, education and training, high technology, and sustainable development.
Minister Bui Thanh Son said that Vietnam attaches great importance to strengthening international cooperation, mobilizing and effectively using external resources for sustainable national development, especially in new strategic areas such as green economy and sustainable development, digital economy and innovation...
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son received and discussed with Mr. Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change |
Regarding sustainable development, Vietnam has made strong commitments on emission reduction at COP 26 and is actively implementing them, including the adoption of the Political Declaration on the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) with G7 countries.
Regarding the digital economy, the Government has issued the "National Digital Transformation Program to 2025, with a vision to 2030" with the goal of turning Vietnam into a digital, stable and prosperous nation based on three pillars of digital government, digital economy and digital society.
In this process, Vietnam hopes to continue receiving support from international partners in terms of capital, technology, experience, etc. on the basis of ensuring the harmony of interests of all parties.
Vietnam also aims to increase investment attraction from potential partners, including corporations and investment funds from the Middle East; promote deep and substantive international integration activities; and develop high-quality human resources to meet new requirements of the era of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution.
In the context of economic diplomacy being affirmed as a fundamental and central task of Vietnamese diplomacy, an important driving force for rapid and sustainable national development; playing a pioneering role in negotiating and implementing bilateral and multilateral economic agreements, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vietnamese representative agencies abroad will step up support for ministries, branches and localities to attract capital, investment, technology and resources for development.
Minister Bui Thanh Son hopes that international partners will cooperate and support the implementation of economic diplomacy more effectively and practically, promote digital diplomacy, and train capacity for diplomatic staff and local officials working in foreign affairs and economic diplomacy.
The Minister proposed that the TBI Institute support the Diplomatic Academy in connecting with major agencies, corporations, businesses, and research institutes around the world to enhance substantive exchanges and in-depth research on new issues and trends of the world economy such as artificial intelligence, semiconductor chip manufacturing, and clean energy conversion.
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| Mr. Tony Blair said that Vietnam has great potential to participate deeply in the global value chain in the digital economy. |
Sharing the opinions of Minister Bui Thanh Son, Mr. Tony Blair expressed his pleasure in visiting Vietnam again and witnessing the impressive changes in Vietnam's socio-economy.
Mr. Tony Blair affirmed that the British government is consistent in its diplomatic policy towards Vietnam, and wishes to promote and deepen cooperation with Vietnam, an important partner of the UK in the region. Mr. Tony Blair personally will continue to make efforts to contribute to the further development of Vietnam-UK relations in all areas.
Institute President Tony Blair commented that the world economy is transforming strongly in the era of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, driven by new drivers, especially the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Many countries are investing heavily in improving computing capacity, taking advantage of achievements in this field to create breakthroughs in productivity.
Mr. Blair said that artificial intelligence will create rapid and comprehensive changes to the world economy in the coming time. In that context, Mr. Tony Blair said that Vietnam has great potential to participate deeply in the global value chain in the field of digital economy.
Institute President Tony Blair highly appreciated Vietnam's strong and substantial efforts to promote sustainable growth, reduce emissions, energy transition, digital transformation, diversify markets and economic and investment partners.
Mr. Tony Blair also said that Vietnam has a lot of potential to promote international cooperation in attracting resources for green growth and developing renewable energy, innovation and digital economy, attracting investment from the Middle East region on the basis of specific cooperation plans and projects.
President of the Institute Tony Blair expressed his hope that in the coming time, the TBI will continue to promote exchange and cooperation activities with a number of Vietnamese ministries and sectors in a number of areas of mutual interest.
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