The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that on the afternoon of September 13, 2024, at the Presidential Palace, General Secretary and President To Lam received Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto on a working visit to Vietnam.
General Secretary and President To Lam sent his regards to Indonesian President Joko Widodo and welcomed President-elect Prabowo Subianto's visit to Vietnam, expressing his affection and respect for the Vietnam-Indonesia Strategic Partnership.
The President-elect affirmed that Indonesia wishes to more strongly implement measures to deepen and deepen the bilateral relationship.
The two leaders highly appreciated the positive developments in the Vietnam-Indonesia Strategic Partnership in recent times. Exchanges of delegations and contacts at high and all levels have been maintained effectively, including the State visit of President Joko Widodo to Vietnam in January 2024.
In ASEAN, Indonesia is Vietnam's 3rd largest trading partner and Vietnam is Indonesia's 4th largest trading partner.
Bilateral trade has increased nearly fourfold over the past 10 years. Businesses from both countries have stepped up investment in each other's markets in important areas such as processing and manufacturing industries, accommodation services, trade, information technology, agriculture, and industry.
The two sides discussed a number of cooperation directions to bring the bilateral relationship to a new height. The two sides agreed to further consolidate political trust through continuing to increase exchanges and contacts at high and all levels through Party, State, National Assembly channels, people-to-people exchanges, and local connections.
The two sides affirmed their determination to increase bilateral trade turnover to 18 billion USD by 2028 through trade promotion activities and supporting businesses to connect with each other; removing difficulties and trade barriers to facilitate access to each other's goods markets.
The two leaders agreed to continue to encourage and facilitate businesses from both countries to invest in each other's markets, especially in new areas such as digital economy, green economy, energy transition, and development of electric vehicle ecosystems.
General Secretary and President To Lam affirmed that Vietnam is ready to strengthen cooperation to ensure food security with Indonesia and asked Indonesia to facilitate Vietnamese agricultural products and Halal products to access the Indonesian market.
The two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in other important areas such as defense and security; share information and coordinate in preventing transnational crimes; and continue to closely coordinate in preventing illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
General Secretary and President To Lam asked Indonesia to pay attention to and support sharing experiences and training Vietnamese officers to participate in the United Nations peacekeeping force.
The two leaders reaffirmed the importance of peace, stability, safety, security and freedom of navigation and aviation in the East Sea; maintained solidarity, common stance and ASEAN's achievements on the East Sea issue; and promoted negotiations on a substantive and effective COC in accordance with international law, especially the 1982 UNCLOS.
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