Further promote trade cooperation with Maldives

On the afternoon of October 24, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Comrade Nguyen Manh Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel on the occasion of attending the signing ceremony of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi.

Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Manh Cuong receives the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Maldives, Abdulla Khaleel. (Photo: Quang Hoa)

At the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Manh Cuong thanked Minister Abdulla Khaleel for attending this event hosted by Vietnam; and conveyed greetings from Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung to Minister Abdulla Khaleel.

Expressing delight at the stable and positive developments in the friendly relations between Vietnam and Maldives after 50 years of establishing diplomatic relations (1975-2025), the Deputy Minister shared that Vietnam wishes to actively exploit the potential and opportunities for cooperation with Maldives, contributing to further developing the relationship between the two countries in a more substantive way in the future.

For his part, Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel welcomed Vietnam's impressive socio -economic achievements and expressed his desire to learn from Vietnam's experience in socio-economic development. Expressing satisfaction that over the past 50 years, bilateral relations have remained stable and are increasingly strengthened, the Minister affirmed that Maldives highly values ​​and wishes to develop relations with Vietnam.

At the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyen Manh Cuong thanked Minister Abdulla Khaleel for attending this event hosted by Vietnam. (Photo: Quang Hoa)

Both sides agreed on the need to promote exchanges of high-level and ministerial visits, establish a dialogue mechanism, and promptly sign a Memorandum of Cooperation between the two Ministries. Based on the potential and strengths of cooperation in trade, tourism, aquaculture, agriculture , and maritime transport, both sides agreed to actively encourage the Ministries and agencies of both countries to negotiate and sign agreements that create a legal framework for cooperation in each specific field; and to further promote trade cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.

During the meeting, both sides also agreed on the need to continue close cooperation on issues of mutual interest such as responding to climate change and sea level rise, ensuring safety, security and freedom of navigation on the basis of international law, especially UNCLOS 1982; and strengthening cooperation and mutual support in multilateral forums, especially in United Nations organizations.

Both sides agreed on the need to continue close cooperation on issues of mutual interest such as responding to climate change and sea level rise, ensuring safety, security and freedom of navigation on the basis of international law, especially UNCLOS 1982. (Photo: Quang Hoa)

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