General Secretary To Lam met with the British Parliamentary All-Party Friendship Group with Vietnam

According to a special correspondent of the Vietnam News Agency, on October 29, in London, the UK, within the framework of his official visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam had a meeting with the All-Party Parliamentary Group of the UK Parliamentary Friendship with Vietnam (APPG).

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Photo caption — General Secretary To Lam met with the British Parliamentary All-Party Friendship Group with Vietnam. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA

General Secretary To Lam sincerely thanked the APPG Parliamentary Group for its active contributions to the development of Vietnam-UK relations in many fields, especially culture, education - training, and people-to-people exchange. Emphasizing that Vietnam and the UK always pay attention to comprehensive cooperation, through the Party, Government, National Assembly and people channels, the General Secretary said that the good results in developing relations between the two countries cannot be mentioned without the support and affection of British friends, especially the APPG Parliamentary Group, and the combination of factors will create a combined strength to promote people-to-people exchange and cooperation in politics - diplomacy, economics - trade - investment... to develop more strongly.

APPG MPs expressed their love and attachment to Vietnam and said they had visited Vietnam in different periods and commented that Vietnam has developed and changed very rapidly in recent years. Supporting and wishing for the further development of the Vietnam-UK relationship, the MPs affirmed that General Secretary To Lam's visit is very important for the relationship between the two countries, bringing bilateral cooperation to a new, deeper and more comprehensive stage of development. The MPs thanked Vietnam for supporting the UK to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans- Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

At the meeting, parliamentarians were impressed with General Secretary To Lam's speech at Oxford University, which presented a vision for developing Vietnam-UK relations in the coming time. Responding to concerns from APPG parliamentarians about priorities in developing bilateral relations in the coming time, General Secretary To Lam emphasized four priorities, namely promoting trade-investment cooperation, science-technology, education-training, developing international financial centers, and actively contributing to the development and prosperity of each country.

On this occasion, the General Secretary proposed to the UK Parliamentary Friendship Group with Vietnam to continue to maintain delegation exchanges, promote cultural, educational, scientific exchanges, and business connections between the two countries; promote exchange activities and specialized seminars in the legislative field between specialized committees of the two National Assemblies, especially on the development of the international financial market in Vietnam.