Deepening the Vietnam-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and National Assembly Chairman Woo Won-shik

At the meeting, National Assembly Chairman Woo Won-shik welcomed Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation on an official visit to Korea, the first visit by a Vietnamese leader since the two countries upgraded their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership. The Korean National Assembly Chairman believes that the visit will contribute to further deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries and promoting the concretization of bilateral relations under the new framework. National Assembly Chairman Woo Won-shik congratulated Vietnam on its socio -economic development achievements in recent times; assessed that the two countries share many similarities in history, culture, and priorities in economic development such as digital transformation, green transformation, and climate change response, as well as complement each other in terms of economy and human resources. Chairman Woo Won-shik affirmed that the Korean National Assembly will closely cooperate with the Vietnamese National Assembly to support the two governments in effectively and substantially implementing the Action Program to implement the new framework of relations and promoting cooperation in economic security and human resource connection.

Expressing his joy at visiting the beautiful and hospitable country of Korea, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked the National Assembly and people of Korea for their warm and thoughtful welcome to the Vietnamese delegation. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh warmly congratulated Mr. Woo Won-shik on his recent election as Speaker of the National Assembly of Korea; conveyed the congratulations and regards of National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and senior leaders of Vietnam to Speaker of the National Assembly Woo Won-shik and expressed his belief that Korea will continue to develop and achieve more success, contributing to increasingly enhancing its position in the region and internationally, in which the National Assembly of Korea plays an important role.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Woo Won-shik

The two sides assessed that the Vietnam-Korea relationship has developed rapidly and substantially in many areas since the two sides upgraded their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership, with positive results in trade, investment, and people-to-people exchange; agreed to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries' National Assemblies in the coming time through promoting exchanges of delegations of National Assembly leaders and leaders of specialized committees, promoting exchanges between parliamentarians and young parliamentarians of the two countries' National Assemblies as well as promoting the bridging role of the Friendship Parliamentary Groups of each country; sharing experiences in law-making, building institutions to serve sustainable development and digital and green transformation; and continuing to promote the role of the two countries' legislative bodies in supporting the two countries' governments to promote bilateral cooperation, including achieving the goal of bringing trade turnover to 100 billion USD by 2025.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh proposed that the National Assemblies of the two countries cooperate closely and effectively implement bilateral and multilateral cooperation mechanisms; support and approve policies to support Vietnamese enterprises to participate more deeply in the global supply chain of Korean enterprises; continue to further open the door for Vietnam's key export goods to the Korean market, including agricultural and aquatic products; promote cooperation between the two countries in the fields of digital transformation and green transformation; Korea supports Vietnam in training human resources in fields such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, etc.

The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea suggested that the Vietnamese Government pay attention to and create favorable conditions for Korean enterprises to do business in Vietnam. Appreciating the positive contributions of the Vietnamese labor community in each country, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea agreed to work with the Vietnamese National Assembly to promote the Korean Government and the Vietnamese Government in protecting and supporting the overseas Vietnamese communities of the two countries to live stably in their home countries; promote cultural exchanges, tourism cooperation, and exchanges between localities and people of the two countries, thereby enhancing understanding between the people of the two countries and creating a foundation for developing sustainable relations between the two countries.

At the meeting, the two leaders also exchanged views on regional and international issues of mutual concern; agreed to coordinate and support each other at international organizations.

On this occasion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh conveyed National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man's invitation to visit Vietnam soon to National Assembly Chairman Woo Won-shik. Chairman Woo Won-shik happily accepted the invitation./.

Source: https://dangcongsan.vn/thoi-su/lam-sau-sac-hon-nua-quan-he-doi-tac-chien-luoc-toan-dien-viet-nam-han-quoc-671496.html