President Luong Cuong receives President of the Senate of the Czech Republic

On the afternoon of November 20, at the Presidential Palace, President Luong Cuong received President of the Senate of the Czech Republic Milos Vystrcil, who is on an official visit to Vietnam.

President Luong Cuong received the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic on November 20. (Photo: Thuy Nguyen)

President Luong Cuong assessed the visit as very important in the context of the two countries celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations (1950-2025) and actively implementing the contents of the strategic partnership framework that was just established in January 2025.

Expressing sincere gratitude for the sentiments, support and valuable assistance that the Czech Republic has given to Vietnam in the past struggle for national liberation, as well as in the current national construction and development, the President affirmed that Vietnam always attaches importance to and wishes to strengthen cooperation with the Czech Republic, one of the top priority partners and Vietnam's first strategic partner in Central Eastern Europe.

President of the Senate of the Czech Republic Milos Vystrcil expressed his pleasure in visiting Vietnam and sincerely thanked the warm, respectful and thoughtful welcome of the Vietnamese leaders and people for the delegation; congratulated the great achievements that Vietnam has achieved after 80 years of independence, 50 years of national reunification and in the cause of national development and international integration in recent times; affirmed that the Czech Republic always considers Vietnam an important partner in Southeast Asia and wishes to develop cooperative relations with Vietnam in all fields.

Overview of the reception (Photo: Thuy Nguyen)

At the meeting, they expressed their delight at the positive developments in the Vietnam-Czech Republic relationship in many fields, on the basis of high political trust, in which two-way trade turnover has grown impressively, reaching 2 billion USD in 2024 and 1.9 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2025, but not commensurate with their potential and strengths. The two leaders assessed that there is still much room for both sides to increase trade turnover, promote investment and cooperation in many other fields.

President Luong Cuong suggested that the legislative bodies of the two countries continue to coordinate to create a favorable legal corridor for bilateral cooperation, meeting the common interests of the two countries, contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.

To promote the Vietnam-Czech Republic cooperation to continue to develop more substantially and effectively, the President suggested that the two sides increase contacts and delegation exchanges at all levels and through different channels to consolidate political trust; promote cooperation in economics, trade, investment, national defense-security, science-technology, education-training, culture-tourism and promote people-to-people exchanges to enhance mutual understanding between the people of the two countries, expand new areas of cooperation where the two sides can complement and support each other; propose that the Czech Republic coordinate to promote the remaining European Union (EU) member countries to soon ratify the Vietnam-EU Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), and support the European Commission (EC) to remove the IUU yellow card for Vietnam's seafood exports.

Delegates attending the reception (Photo: Thuy Nguyen)

Agreeing with the proposals of President Luong Cuong, the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic said that the legislative bodies of the two countries will coordinate to implement high-level agreements, support the two governments to promote bilateral cooperation in all fields; at the same time, highly appreciate the contributions of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic to the local socio-economy and affirm that the National Assembly and authorities at all levels of the Czech Republic will continue to pay attention and create favorable conditions for the community.

Regarding multilateral cooperation, the two leaders affirmed that Vietnam and the Czech Republic will continue to closely coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums, especially at the United Nations, within the ASEAN-EU framework; at the same time, they affirmed their support for the stance of resolving disputes, including the East Sea issue, by peaceful means in accordance with international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

On this occasion, President of the Czech Senate Milos Vystrcil informed President Luong Cuong that the Czech side will provide humanitarian aid worth VND3.5 billion to people affected by storms and floods in central Vietnam through the Vietnam Red Cross Society and hoped that Vietnam will soon overcome difficulties and remedy the damage caused by natural disasters.

At the reception, through President of the Czech Senate Milos Vystrcil, President Luong Cuong also respectfully conveyed his regards and invitation to Czech President Petr Pavel to soon visit Vietnam to continue discussing directions and measures to promote bilateral relations in the coming time.

Xuan Ky

Source: https://nhandan.vn/chu-tich-nuoc-luong-cuong-tiep-chu-tich-thuong-vien-quoc-hoi-cong-hoa-sec-post924636.html