Opening up new development space for relations between Vietnam and three Middle Eastern countries

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son. (Photo: Foreign Office Vietnam)

Reporter: Could you please tell us the significance of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's visit to three Middle Eastern countries?

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, along with the Vietnamese high-ranking delegation, have just successfully concluded their visit to three Middle Eastern countries. The visit is an important milestone, demonstrating the developing relationship between Vietnam and the three countries and has the following special meanings:

First, The visit is of utmost importance, affirming the new thinking, new strategic vision, and high determination of our leaders in bringing relations with the three key countries of the Gulf region into a new phase, stronger, more comprehensive, with deeper trust, and more open opportunities.

Second, the visit has elevated the relationship between Vietnam and the three countries in particular, and the Middle East-North Africa region in general. The official upgrading of relations with the UAE to Comprehensive Partnership has opened up new development space for the bilateral relationship, expanding our Comprehensive Partnership network to 13 countries; at the same time, the agreement between Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to promote the early elevation of relations to a new height in the coming time has created momentum for the comprehensive development of friendship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and these countries, creating leverage to strengthen relations with other important partners in the Middle East-North Africa region.

Tuesday, The visit once again demonstrated innovative thinking, strategic vision, strong commitment, and decisive action in promoting multifaceted cooperation with the potential Middle East region. The visit has strongly opened up more markets for Vietnam's export goods, while attracting high-quality investment capital from leading investment funds and corporations. world, expanding cooperation in priority areas of Vietnam such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, clean energy, green transformation, digital transformation, innovation and industry development. Halal…, bringing specific, practical benefits for the country's development in the coming time.

Reporter: Deputy Prime Minister, could you please tell us the main results of the visit?

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son: During his stay in the three countries, the Prime Minister had a dense, rich, practical and effective working program with nearly 60 activities, including talks and meetings with senior leaders, ministers, leaders of corporations and large investment funds of the three countries; speaking at the 8th Future Investment Initiative Conference (FII8) in Saudi Arabia; delivering a policy speech at the UAE Diplomatic Academy; speaking at the Vietnam-UAE Business Forum; attending the opening ceremony of Vinfast's showroom in the UAE; opening ceremony of the Office of ftp extension in Saudi Arabia; visited the Ras Laffan petrochemical complex in Qatar; met with embassy staff and the Vietnamese community in the three countries... During the trip, the ministers and local leaders participating in the delegation also had dozens of meetings and worked with partners.

The Prime Minister's visit was a great success, achieving the set goals with many important and substantive results, contributing to consolidating and strengthening the friendly and cooperative relations with the three countries. The leaders of the countries gave a thoughtful and respectful welcome with many exceptions for our leaders, showing that all three countries attach importance to the relationship with Vietnam in the "Look East" policy, and at the same time consider Vietnam as a leading important partner in Southeast Asia. The leaders of the three countries all expressed their admiration for Vietnam's glorious history, highly appreciated its potential, development achievements and its increasingly high position and role. In the meetings with the Prime Minister, the leaders of the largest investment funds and large corporations of the three countries were very excited, highly appreciated Vietnam's development potential and affirmed that after the visit, they would immediately send delegations to Vietnam to explore investment and business opportunities.

We can see the main results as follows:

First, During the visit, many important documents were adopted, including the Joint Statement on upgrading Vietnam-UAE relations to Comprehensive Partnership, the Joint Communique between Vietnam and Qatar, and 33 cooperation documents in the fields of trade-investment, finance, energy, innovation, standards, metrology and quality. education-train, nutrition, cooperation between businesses..., creating the basis for promoting cooperation in all fields between Vietnam and the three countries to develop more strongly.

Monday, The visit deepened political trust and strengthened good personal relations between our senior leaders and the senior leaders and royal families of the three countries. The meetings and contacts between the Prime Minister and the leaders of the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar took place in an atmosphere of sincerity, trust, substance and mutual understanding, affirming the determination to develop bilateral relations in a practical, effective and long-term manner.

Tuesday, The visit achieved many substantial and breakthrough results in the fields of economic, trade and investment cooperation. The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with the UAE is the 17th free trade agreement that Vietnam has signed, setting a two-way trade turnover target of 20 billion in the coming time... With Saudi Arabia, the two sides agreed to target a trade turnover of 10 billion USD; promote the development of Saudi Arabia to become one of the leading investors in Vietnam... With Qatar, the two sides agreed to make efforts to increase bilateral trade turnover in the coming time; study the establishment of a Joint Working Group on Trade; consider the possibility of building a Vietnam Product Exhibition Center in Qatar; promote cooperation in the financial sector...

Wednesday, The visit has created new momentum, opening up many opportunities for cooperation between Vietnam and the three countries in many fields, including new and potential fields. Besides the goal of bringing traditional fields such as security, education, Travel, people-to-people exchange... become a solid foundation for long-term friendship and cooperation. Vietnam identifies the pillars of future cooperation with other countries as innovation, green transformation, digital transformation, and development of the Halal industry in Vietnam...

Thursday, In Saudi Arabia, the Prime Minister attended the 8th Future Investment Initiative Conference with the theme “Infinite Horizons: Investing Today, Shaping the Future”, sending a message about Vietnam being innovative, dynamic and ready to exchange, share and propose investment initiatives with other countries for a sustainable and prosperous future. During the meetings with the Prime Ministers of Pakistan, Egypt and the Crown Prince of Jordan, the leaders of the countries deeply admired the President. Ho Chi Minh and have special affection for the country and people of Vietnam. The Prime Minister and leaders of the countries had a profound and comprehensive exchange on the relations between Vietnam and the countries as well as measures to promote the development of all aspects of the relationship to match the potential and aspirations of Vietnam and the countries.

Reporter: Could you please tell us about the implementation direction of the results achieved from the visit?

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son: In the spirit of valuing “time” and “intelligence” as emphasized by the Prime Minister, we need to be determined to implement the following priorities:

First, strengthen cooperation in all political fieldsdiplomatic, defense-security, technology, Agriculture, industry, energy, tourism...; regularly exchange specific information with the two sides' focal points agreed upon during the visit in the spirit of "what is said must be done, what is committed must be implemented".

Monday, To concretize the signed agreements and commitments of the two countries' senior leaders, the Ministers, relevant sectors and localities proactively review the signed cooperation agreements, including the CEPA Agreement between Vietnam and the UAE, develop specific action plans, and ensure the highest progress and implementation efficiency.

Tuesday, Continue to improve the investment and business environment, creating favorable conditions for Vietnamese and foreign enterprises to increase investment and business cooperation with each other.

Wednesday, promote people-to-people exchanges, boost cultural, educational and tourism exchanges, enhance mutual understanding between the Vietnamese people and the three countries; create the most favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community living, working and studying in the three countries to stabilize their lives, work with peace of mind for the long term, contributing to being a solid bridge for the friendly and cooperative relations between Vietnam and the three countries.

I believe that with great determination, the results achieved during the Prime Minister's visit will be effectively implemented, contributing to the comprehensive development of the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, bringing practical benefits to the people and businesses of both sides, contributing to peace, stability and development of the region and the world as well as helping Vietnam steadily enter a new era, an era of national growth.

Reporter: Sincerely thank you!

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