This evening (October 23), at the National Assembly House, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man hosted an official welcoming ceremony for Malaysian House of Representatives Speaker Tan Sri Dato' Johari Bin Abdul. Immediately after the welcoming ceremony, the two sides held talks.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man highly appreciated the visit of Speaker of the House of Representatives Tan Sri Dato' Johari Bin Abdul, which took place at a time when the two countries are looking forward to celebrating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Strategic Partnership (2025); the visit has contributed to consolidating and promoting the friendship and cooperation between the two countries in all fields and promoting the cooperation between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Malaysian Parliament to become more substantive and effective.
In recent times, the political relationship between the two countries has become increasingly close through cooperation and exchange of delegations at all levels and through channels, including the National Assembly channel. The two countries have closely coordinated at regional and international forums such as ASEAN, the United Nations, and APEC.
On this occasion, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man congratulated Malaysia on its many important achievements, the rapid development of the Malaysian economy, becoming one of the 27 most competitive economies in the world; he believed that the Malaysian House of Representatives would make many important contributions to the country's economic development in the coming time, improving people's lives and consolidating Malaysia's role and position in the region and the world.
Vietnam attaches importance to and wishes to strongly promote the Strategic Partnership with Malaysia to become increasingly deeper, more substantial and more effective, aiming to elevate the bilateral relationship to a new height. The Vietnamese National Assembly is ready to create all favorable conditions for cooperation between the two countries.
The National Assembly Chairman said that in the first 8 months of 2024, bilateral trade between Vietnam and Malaysia continued to record positive signals with turnover reaching 9.62 billion USD, up 15.2% over the same period last year and accounting for 1.9% of the total import-export turnover of Vietnam.
In particular, tourism activities between the two countries have returned to normal and are on the rise after Vietnam and Malaysia cooperated to promote tourism between the two countries. Malaysia is currently the second largest tourist market of Vietnam in ASEAN. In the first 9 months of 2024, Vietnam welcomed 356,517 Malaysian visitors.
Affirming that the room and potential for trade and tourism development between Vietnam and Malaysia is still very large, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that both countries can strengthen cooperation in the fields of investment, technology, tourism, trade, and energy, thereby expanding the trading space and maximizing the comparative advantages of each side.
In order to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries, on this occasion, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man suggested that the Malaysian side continue to promote the exchange of high-level delegations and all levels, effectively implement existing cooperation mechanisms and agreements, contributing to consolidating strategic trust between the two countries.
The two sides will soon bring bilateral trade turnover to 18 billion USD in a balanced direction; facilitate import and export and limit the application of trade barriers. Support training for localities and Vietnamese enterprises on production processes and Halal certification; facilitate further import of these items from Vietnam, strive to soon sign a cooperation agreement in the field of Halal from Vietnam in the near future; Research and move towards opening more direct flights connecting famous landmarks between the two countries, contributing to promoting trade and tourism.
Promote cooperation programs on training and human resource development in areas where both sides have strengths and needs such as science, technology, information technology, economics, and educational management.
Regarding the East Sea issue, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man highly appreciated Malaysia's viewpoints and policies in handling the East Sea issue. The two sides need to coordinate with ASEAN countries to maintain ASEAN's stance on the East Sea issue, promote full implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC); negotiate an effective, substantive Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) in accordance with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The two sides continued to coordinate effectively in the repatriation and humane treatment of Vietnamese fishermen detained in Malaysian waters in a humanitarian spirit and internal handling between the two countries on the basis of the Vietnam - Malaysia Strategic Partnership; recognized Vietnam's efforts in managing and limiting violations of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU), creating conditions for Vietnam to lobby the EC to remove the yellow card for Vietnam's fisheries industry.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that the relationship between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Malaysian Parliament continues to be consolidated and enhanced both bilaterally and within the framework of international and regional inter-parliamentary forums of which both sides are members, most recently at the 45th AIPA General Assembly.
To enhance cooperation between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Malaysian House of Representatives, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man suggested that the two sides study and promote the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Malaysian House of Representatives and Senate, creating a basis for the two sides to promote and deepen cooperation between the two countries' legislative bodies.
Welcoming Malaysia's establishment of the "Malaysia - Vietnam Friendship Association" in 2022, the National Assembly Chairman hoped that the Malaysian House of Representatives would continue to pay attention to helping and creating favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community in Malaysia to live, do business, work, study, and actively contribute to the development of Malaysia and be a bridge for the relationship between the two countries; at the same time, continue to create a favorable legal corridor for the two governments to effectively implement signed cooperation agreements, especially the Action Program to implement the Strategic Partnership between the two countries for the period 2021-2025.
The two sides need to increase high-level and all-level contacts between parliamentarians of the two countries and the two Parliamentary Friendship Groups to exchange professional experience in the fields of legislation, supervision and decision-making on important national issues.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man suggested that the Malaysian Parliament, in its role as AIPA Chair 2025, will continue to promote strong cooperation within AIPA, contributing to deepening the relationship between ASEAN parliaments and creating an effective and substantive dialogue space for important regional issues.
Strengthen cooperation between the Office of the National Assembly of Vietnam and the Secretariat of the Malaysian House of Representatives, especially in the fields of training and fostering of officials, exchanging experiences in research, general consulting and organization to serve the activities of the Parliament.
Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives Tan Sri Dato' Johari Bin Abdul expressed his gratitude to the National Assembly and the Vietnamese people for their warm and respectful reception; emphasizing that the Malaysian people greatly admire the heroic country and people of Vietnam in the struggle for national independence, as well as in the cause of national construction and development.
The Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives emphasized that Malaysia and Vietnam are an important part of ASEAN and are striving to work together to develop the economy, share achievements in science and technology, and cooperate in energy.
At the request of National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives Tan Sri Dato' Johari Bin Abdul acknowledged and said he would forward it to Malaysian authorities for coordination; emphasizing that in the coming time, the National Assemblies/Parliaments of the two countries will continue to promote parliamentary activities.
On this occasion, the Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives respectfully invited National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and senior leaders of Vietnam to attend the conference and visit during the year Malaysia assumes the role of ASEAN Chair and AIPA General Assembly President -2025.
Source: https://vov.vn/chinh-tri/chu-tich-quoc-hoi-tran-thanh-man-hoi-dam-chu-tich-ha-vien-malaysia-post1130421.vov
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