Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with leaders of Cambodia, Canada and Brazil

According to a special correspondent of the Vietnam News Agency, on the morning of October 26, within the framework of the 47th ASEAN Summit and related conferences in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had meetings with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Brazilian President Lula da Silva.

Meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh congratulated Cambodia on the great and comprehensive achievements it has made in recent times, and welcomed new progress in peacefully resolving the Cambodia-Thailand situation, including the signing of the Peace Agreement on the occasion of this Summit.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the peace agreement creates a foundation for the two countries to stabilize the border area and soon resume comprehensive cooperation and connectivity, thereby strengthening trust, moving towards long-term peace and bringing practical benefits to the people of Cambodia, Thailand as well as the whole region.

Discussing bilateral relations, the two leaders agreed to continue strengthening political trust and promoting existing cooperation mechanisms under the motto of “good neighborliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, long-term sustainability,” striving to create breakthroughs in economic cooperation, contributing to bringing bilateral trade turnover to soon reach the target of 20 billion USD.

The two sides also agreed to promote local connectivity in a practical and effective manner, promote transport infrastructure and logistics connectivity between the two countries, especially the Ho Chi Minh City-Moc Bai-Bavet-Phnom Penh expressway connection project, develop border gates and border trade infrastructure; continue to negotiate and resolve remaining problems on border demarcation and marker planting in the spirit of solidarity and friendship with the motto "good neighbors, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, long-term sustainability."

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also asked the Cambodian side to continue to pay attention and create favorable conditions for Vietnamese enterprises to operate stably and expand investment in Cambodia.

Regarding the international and regional situation, the two Prime Ministers exchanged views on issues of mutual concern. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked the Cambodian side for sending a Deputy Prime Minister to attend the signing ceremony of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime (Hanoi Convention), contributing to the overall success of the event.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

At a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh welcomed Canada's foreign policy of increasing engagement with the region through the Indo-Pacific Strategy, creating favorable conditions for the two countries to promote substantive cooperation in the coming time.

The Prime Minister hopes that Canada will step up cooperation and support Vietnam in areas where Canada has strengths and Vietnam has needs, such as aviation, energy, training of civil nuclear engineering experts, and especially granting more scholarships to Vietnamese students to contribute to further deepening people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.

The Prime Minister also asked the Canadian Government to create more favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community in Canada to live stably, develop and contribute increasingly positively to the good relations between the two countries.

The two leaders agreed on the need to continue to elevate and deepen bilateral relations through high-level foreign activities and further increase political trust.

The two Prime Ministers also discussed a number of measures to make economic, trade and investment cooperation an important pillar of the Vietnam-Canada relationship, on the basis of effectively exploiting the complementarity between the two economies and taking advantage of being members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), opening the market, facilitating investment and connecting supply chains in a sustainable and mutually beneficial manner.

Sharing his personal feelings since visiting Vietnam in 1991, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed his impression of Vietnam's socio-economic development achievements and growing international position.

He affirmed that Canada considers Vietnam an important partner in the Indo-Pacific region, a bridge and trade gateway to the region.

Agreeing with the specific proposals that Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made on promoting cooperation between the two countries, the Canadian Prime Minister wished to further strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in the fields of energy, mining, and aviation engineering.

The two sides agreed to coordinate more closely at regional and global multilateral forums, especially ASEAN and the United Nations, actively contributing to strengthening multilateralism and international law.

Canada hopes to work with Vietnam to promote the completion of negotiations on the ASEAN-Canada free trade agreement; affirming to continue active coordination in 2026 when Vietnam assumes the role of Chair of the CPTPP Council.

On this occasion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh respectfully invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to visit Vietnam soon to discuss specific measures to elevate the good cooperative relationship between the two countries to a new level. The Canadian Prime Minister happily accepted the invitation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with Brazilian President Lula da Silva. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

In a talk with Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his delight at the strong development of Vietnam-Brazil relations since the two countries upgraded their relationship to a Strategic Partnership.

The two leaders affirmed that they will continue to promote the effective and substantive implementation of the high-level agreements that have been reached. Accordingly, the two sides agreed to further facilitate investment and trade, open markets for each other's agricultural products, and promote the early launch and completion of negotiations on the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Vietnam and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR).

The two leaders also agreed to strengthen agricultural cooperation based on the common strengths of the two countries, especially cooperation in coffee production and export.

President Lula da Silva affirmed that he attaches special importance to relations with Vietnam, expressing his desire and determination to further deepen the Vietnam-Brazil Strategic Partnership, especially in the economic and trade fields, towards the goal of raising bilateral trade turnover to 15 billion USD by 2030, commensurate with the potential of the two countries.

In that spirit, the Brazilian President said that Brazil is speeding up internal procedures to soon have an official document recognizing Vietnam's Market Economy Status.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked President Lula da Silva for his attention and special affection for Vietnam, and thanked Brazil for its support and sending a representative to attend the signing ceremony of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi (October 25-26, 2025).

Congratulating Brazil on its success in assuming the BRICS 2025 Chairmanship, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated Brazil's growing international position, expressed support for Brazil's leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement, South-South cooperation as well as Brazil's becoming a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council when the Council is reformed and expanded.

Sharing experiences in overcoming challenges in a volatile global context, the two leaders agreed to continue consulting and closely coordinating to enhance the role and voice of developing countries, actively contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and inclusive and sustainable development in the two regions as well as globally./.

(TTXVN/Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/thu-tuong-pham-minh-chinh-gap-lanh-dao-cac-nuoc-campuchia-canada-va-brazil-post1072802.vnp