Early in the morning of March 12.3, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife along with a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation arrived in Hanoi, successfully ending their business trip to attend the Special Summit commemorating 50 years of ASEAN relations. – Australia and official visit to Australia and New Zealand from March 5-11.3.
During his business trip, despite having to travel long distances and go back and forth between 4 different cities in both Australia and New Zealand, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh still had more than 50 activities.
Talking to the press, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son assessed that the Special Summit commemorating the 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Australia relations was a great success, with many important results.
From the beginning, Vietnam has proactively and actively participated, both in the preparation process, agenda building and document negotiation, as well as participating and making important contributions to the overall success of the conference. .
In particular, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's profound, comprehensive, and strategic statements were highly appreciated by other countries, both correctly assessing the level of ASEAN-Australia relations over the past 50 years, and also proposing the vision, future orientation and proposals and initiatives to promote relations in the coming time.
Countries are impressed with the numbers 3 proposed by the Prime Minister of Vietnam. Those are three breakthroughs, three enhancements and three consequences for ASEAN-Australia relations in the coming time.
The three breakthroughs include breakthroughs in economic cooperation, trade and investment; breakthrough in human resource development cooperation, especially high quality human resources and labor cooperation; and breakthroughs in cooperation in science - technology and innovation, focusing on developing the digital economy, green transformation, and emerging industries and fields such as semiconductor chips and artificial intelligence.
The three enhancements include enhancing political trust, promoting a culture of dialogue and cooperation, promoting trust building and preventive diplomacy, and encouraging major countries to contribute responsibly to the region; Strengthen sub-regional cooperation, narrow the development gap for inclusive and sustainable development; and strengthen cultural cooperation and people-to-people exchanges, especially between the young generation of the two sides, thereby strengthening the long-term social foundation and strong relations.
Three include jointly building a united and self-reliant region; jointly promote a region that respects international law and operates based on the rules; and jointly build and shape an open, inclusive regional structure, promoting multilateralism with ASEAN playing a central role.
Vietnam's participation at the conference has contributed to promoting Vietnam's role in ASEAN-Australia relations, and at the same time, through ASEAN, promoting Vietnam-Australia bilateral relations to develop more substantively and effectively. more in the near future.
On the occasion of attending the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh took advantage of the time to meet all senior leaders of ASEAN countries, Timor Leste, Australia, New Zealand and the Secretary General of ASEAN. The partners all highly appreciate the role and position of Vietnam and wish to further deepen the relationship between the two sides in all fields, especially economics - trade, science - technology, education - training, tourism, people-to-people exchanges.
The Prime Minister's official visit to Australia and New Zealand was also successful in all aspects and was an important milestone in the relationship between Vietnam and the two countries.
Vietnam and Australia upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership; while with New Zealand, both sides agreed to promote bilateral relations to new heights.
If with Australia, the two sides proposed a direction of "6 more points", then with New Zealand, the two sides proposed contents covered in three pairs of keywords: "stabilize and consolidate", "strengthen and open". wide" and "accelerate and break through".
In particular, during the visit to the two countries, the two sides signed nearly 30 cooperation documents in the fields of education, training, innovation, aviation, energy, mining, trade, and investment. investment, finance, banking, agriculture, environment, labor and employment, justice, defense...
The Prime Minister's business trip to Australia and New Zealand ended successfully, practically implementing the foreign policy policy of the 13th National Party Congress on continuing to promote and deepen relations with partners, especially with Strategic Partners, Comprehensive Partners, important partners and traditional friends.
