Vietnam and Kazakhstan strengthen legal cooperation

(Chinhphu.vn) - Within the framework of accompanying General Secretary To Lam and his wife on a state visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan from May 5-7, 2025, on May 6, Vietnamese Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh and Kazakhstan Minister of Justice Sarsembayev Yerlan signed the Cooperation Program between the two Ministries for the period 2025-2027.

Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh and Minister of Justice of Kazakhstan Sarsembayev Yerlan presented the Cooperation Program between the two Ministries for the period 2025-2027. Photo: Ministry of Justice

At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jormat Tokayev, from May 5-7, 2025, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam and his wife Ngo Phuong Ly and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam paid a state visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan. This is the first state visit to Kazakhstan by a key leader of our country in the past 13 years and the first time at the General Secretary level of Vietnam has visited Kazakhstan. Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh is an official member of the high-ranking delegation.

On May 6, right after the State-level talks between General Secretary To Lam and President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jormat Tokayev, in the presence of the leaders of the Party and State of both sides, Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh and Minister of Justice of Kazakhstan Sarsembayev Yerlan presented the Cooperation Program between the two Ministries for the period 2025-2027.

The development of the Cooperation Program between the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam and the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan for the period 2025-2027 is one of the first activities to specify the contents of expanding international cooperation on law and justice in the spirit of Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW dated April 30, 2025 of the Politburo on innovating the work of building and enforcing laws to meet the requirements of national development in the new era.

In addition, the signing of the three-year cooperation program between the two ministries is also a step to concretize and implement the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the two ministries of Justice signed on October 31, 2011, following the signed cooperation programs between the two ministries for the 2015-2017 period and the 2019-2020 period.

The signed cooperation document will facilitate the Parties to focus on promoting cooperation activities and exchanging expertise on the following topics: Implementation of international treaties on judicial assistance in civil matters to which Vietnam and Kazakhstan are members; issues of transaction registration, secured assets, organization of legal aid systems and implementation of legal aid in litigation; consultation and exchange of experience on organizing civil judgment enforcement activities; consultation and exchange of experience in the field of judicial expertise; exchange of information, documents and publications made public in the legal field.

These cooperation contents will support units under the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam in researching, exchanging and referring to experiences in the process of building, perfecting laws, and organizing law enforcement in a number of state management fields in order to promptly and effectively implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW dated April 30, 2025 of the Politburo on innovation in law making and enforcement to meet the requirements of national development in the new era.

Legal cooperation with Kazakhstan began with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two Ministries in 2011 and an Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Civil Matters between the two countries in 2011. The two sides have also exchanged delegations at all levels, such as the delegation of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam to Kazakhstan to attend the International Conference on Administrative Law in 2015, and the delegation of experts from the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan to visit and work in Vietnam in 2016...

The signing of the Cooperation Program between the two countries' Ministries of Justice for the 2025-2027 period with specific cooperation activities will promote increasingly deeper cooperation in the legal field, especially in the context of the two countries' recent upgrade of their relationship to a Strategic Partnership.

Dieu Anh

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