President approves the Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between Vietnam and the Czech Republic

President Vo Van Thuong. *Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA*

Vietnam and the Czech Republic have established diplomatic relations for more than 70 years. The cooperative relationship between the two countries has developed increasingly strongly and comprehensively. Currently, the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic is recognized as the 14th ethnic minority of the Czech Republic.

Vietnam and Czechoslovakia signed the 1982 Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Civil and Criminal Matters (now inherited by the Czech Republic), which is the legal framework for the two sides to coordinate in resolving requests for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters in recent times.

To meet new practical requirements, the ratification of a separate Agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters replacing the provisions on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters in the 1982 Agreement is necessary, contributing to perfecting the legal framework on mutual legal assistance between the two countries.

The ratification of the Agreement is consistent with the proactive foreign policy of comprehensive and extensive international integration of our Party and State as a responsible member of the international community, and is the concretization of Vietnam's international commitments in the field of criminal justice and cooperation in the fight against crime.

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