Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan. Photo: VOV

Discussing regional and international issues of common concern, the two ministers agreed that the two countries need to continue strengthening cooperation, maintaining solidarity, and promoting ASEAN's central role. Regarding the South China Sea issue, both sides agreed to resolutely build the South China Sea into a sea of ​​peace, cooperation, and development; and to work with ASEAN countries to seriously and fully implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC), striving to soon achieve an effective and legally binding Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC) in accordance with international law and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

* On the same day, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son met with Singapore's Senior Minister and Minister for National Security Coordination, Teo Chee Hean.