The Foreign Ministers of Vietnam and China said that it is necessary to strengthen the implementation of high-level agreements and common perceptions, promoting bilateral relations in a “6 more” orientation.
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son today held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guangxi, within the framework of his visit to China on April 3-4. This is the first meeting between the two ministers after Vietnam and China upgraded their Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and agreed to build a strategically meaningful Community of Shared Future.
The two ministers affirmed the importance of Vietnam – China relations in each country’s foreign policy, emphasizing the need to strengthen coordination and effectively deploy high-level agreements and common perceptions to continue promoting promote the two countries’ relations to develop stably and sustainably according to the “6 more” orientation, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcement.
Previously, during the official visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Vietnam in December 2023, the two countries proposed 6 major cooperation directions to continue to deepen and elevate the cooperative partnership. Comprehensive Strategy, promoting the building of a Community with a shared future.
The 6 directions include higher political trust, more substantive defense and security cooperation, deeper substantive cooperation, a stronger social foundation, closer multilateral coordination, and tolerance for disagreement. Better control and resolution.
The two sides agreed to continue organizing dialogue, exchange and cooperation mechanisms in the fields of defense, security and justice. Vietnam – China will promote economic and trade cooperation, prioritize strategic transportation connections, and facilitate socio-economic exchanges between the two countries as well as cooperation between China and Southeast Asia.
The two ministers agreed to strengthen people-to-people exchanges, promote cooperation mechanisms between localities of the two countries, coordinate management and protection of land borders, open new, upgrade and recognize pairs of border gates. agreed to build smart border gates.
Regarding maritime issues, the two sides emphasized the importance of seriously implementing the agreements and common awareness of the two countries’ leaders on controlling and resolving disagreements well, and fully implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties. Parties in the East Sea (DOC), together with ASEAN countries, promote negotiations and soon reach a document on the Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) in accordance with international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). ) in 1982.
Minister Bui Thanh Son proposed promoting sustainable balanced economic and trade cooperation, asking China to increase imports of Vietnamese agricultural products, remove obstacles in a number of industrial cooperation projects, and speed up the conclusion. Connecting railways to the northern provinces of Vietnam, expanding economic corridors in the “Two Corridors, One Belt” area, promoting tourism and increasing commercial flights.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed that the two sides strengthen the strategic connection between the “Belt and Road” initiative and the “Two Corridors, One Belt” framework. China will consider expanding imports of Vietnamese goods, agricultural and aquatic products, strengthening road traffic connections, cooperation in education and tourism.
