Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with President of the United States of America Joe Biden

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh welcomed President Joe Biden to visit Vietnam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Comprehensive Partnership framework .

At the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh welcomed President Joe Biden and the high-ranking US delegation to visit Vietnam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Comprehensive Partnership framework, emphasizing the significance of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Joe Biden's announcement to upgrade the Vietnam-US relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, reflecting the stature of the relationship, in line with the interests of the people of the two countries and actively contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world . The Prime Minister affirmed Vietnam's consistent stance of considering the US a partner of strategic importance, welcoming the US's support for a strong, independent, self-reliant and prosperous Vietnam, and at the same time asking the US to continue promoting specific forms of cooperation to implement the above commitment.

President Joe Biden expressed his pleasure at meeting Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh again and thanked General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the leaders and people of Vietnam for the warm welcome they gave him and the delegation. President Biden expressed his delight at the upgrading of the relationship between the two Pacific nations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, saying that this is an opportunity to build a bright future for the two peoples; at the same time, he reaffirmed his support for a strong, independent, self-reliant and prosperous Vietnam that continues to innovate, expand international integration, and assume a greater role in ASEAN and the region as well as in international cooperation to respond to global challenges.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed Vietnam's consistent stance of considering the United States a partner of strategic importance.

The two leaders expressed their delight at the extensive developments in the Vietnam-US relationship on all three bilateral, regional and international fronts after nearly 30 years of normalization of relations and 10 years of establishing the Comprehensive Partnership, in which economy - trade - investment continues to be a bright spot and driving force of bilateral relations with two-way turnover reaching over 123 billion USD by 2022. Cooperation between the two countries in science - technology, education - training, security - defense, overcoming the consequences of war, responding to climate change, people-to-people exchange, etc. continues to achieve many important advances.

To effectively implement the framework of the Vietnam-US Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested that the two sides continue to strengthen cooperation on all channels, especially the Party, State diplomacy and people-to-people diplomacy. Regarding economic-trade-investment cooperation, the Prime Minister said that it is necessary to consider this as the "eternal engine" of bilateral relations, and suggested that the US side soon recognize Vietnam's market economy status, as well as upgrade the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, and continue to encourage US high-tech enterprises to do business in Vietnam. In addition, the Prime Minister also suggested that the two sides create breakthroughs in cooperation in science and technology, innovation, education and training; at the same time, further promote cooperation in climate change response, green growth, and renewable energy development.

President Biden agreed with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the orientations and measures to implement the new framework of bilateral relations as well as priority areas of cooperation, including healthcare, social security, green energy, high technology, etc. President Biden suggested that the two sides strengthen cooperation in the semiconductor supply chain through human resource training programs for Vietnam, thereby gradually supporting Vietnam to participate more deeply and become an important link in supply chains in the region and the world.

The two leaders expressed their delight at the extensive developments in Vietnam-US relations on all three bilateral, regional and international levels.

The Prime Minister affirmed that Vietnam is a proactive, active and responsible member of the international community, and hopes that the United States will continue to provide practical support for Vietnam's peacekeeping activities at the United Nations. In the context of the world facing non-traditional security challenges on a global scale, the Prime Minister highly appreciated the role of multilateralism, and suggested that the United States continue to pay attention to devoting resources to effectively implementing the ASEAN-US comprehensive strategic partnership, further deepening the Mekong-US partnership through specific and substantive projects on climate change response, sustainable water resource management, ensuring food security, energy transition, human resource development, etc. in the Mekong sub-region.

Today is September 11. The Prime Minister shared with President Biden the pain and loss of the American people in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, emphasizing Vietnam's stance on fighting terrorism in any form and that international cooperation to fight terrorism is very important, including cooperation with the United States.

On this occasion, the Prime Minister thanked and asked President Biden and the US side to continue to pay attention to and create favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community living, studying and working in the US.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and US President Joe Biden attend the "Vietnam - US Summit on Investment and Innovation".

After the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and President Joe Biden attended and spoke at the Vietnam-US Summit on Investment and Innovation with the participation of a number of leading businesses from the two countries in the fields of technology, innovation and financial investment.

According to chinhphu.cn

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