President Andrzej Duda affirmed that Poland always considers Vietnam as its most important partner in Southeast Asia and wishes to develop cooperative relations with Vietnam in all fields.
According to the special correspondent of VNA, within the framework of the official visit to Poland, on the afternoon of January 16, at the Presidential Palace, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
At the meeting, Polish President Andrzej Duda highly appreciated the official visit of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese Government on the occasion of the two countries celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations (1950-2025), believing that the visit to Poland by a Vietnamese Prime Minister after many years will create a turning point to promote the further development of the Poland-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership; highly appreciated the role of Vietnam in the Asia-Pacific region.
President Andrzej Duda recalled the good memories of his visit to Vietnam in 2017 and his meeting with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the occasion of attending the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China in June 2024, expressing his delight at the positive developments in relations between the two countries in recent times, affirming that Poland always considers Vietnam the most important partner in Southeast Asia and wishes to develop cooperative relations with Vietnam in all fields.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his delight at visiting the beautiful country of Poland, the land of great musical and scientific figures such as Nikolaj Kopernik, Frédéric Chopin, and Marie Curie, at a time when Poland has just assumed the presidency of the European Union.
The Prime Minister congratulated Poland on its impressive achievements in socio-economic development and European integration, contributing to enhancing Poland's role and position in the region and highly appreciated President Andrzej Duda's contributions to Poland.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh respectfully conveyed the greetings of Party Secretary To Lam, President Luong Cuong, and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man to President Andrzej Duda.
The Prime Minister thanked the Polish leaders and people for their warm and respectful reception of the delegation and informed them of the results of the very successful talks with Prime Minister Donald Tusk; emphasizing that the Vietnamese people always remember the valuable support and assistance that the Polish people have given to Vietnam in the past struggle for independence and national reunification and in the current socio-economic development and international integration.
The Prime Minister affirmed that although times have changed, the friendship between the two nations will never change; affirming that in implementing the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralization of international relations, Vietnam always attaches importance to and wishes to strengthen relations with traditional friends in the Central and Eastern European region, of which Poland is one of the top priority partners.
At the meeting, the two leaders expressed their delight at the positive developments in Vietnam-Poland relations in many areas, making the bilateral relationship deeper, more comprehensive and more inclusive. The two countries maintain delegation exchanges at all levels through all channels of the Party, State, Government, National Assembly and people-to-people diplomacy.
Economic and trade relations have become an important highlight in bilateral cooperation, with two-way trade turnover reaching over 2.5 billion USD from 2020 to present, and over 3 billion USD in 2024 alone, making Poland Vietnam's largest trade partner in the Central and Eastern European region. Cooperation in the fields of education and training, culture and tourism, agriculture, etc. continues to achieve many important developments. The Polish President highly appreciated Vietnam's decision to exempt visas for Polish citizens in 2025 and believed that this move would create momentum to promote tourism and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
Discussing orientations and important measures to deepen and make bilateral relations more effective, the two leaders agreed to continue to increase contacts and exchanges of delegations at all levels, especially high-level ones, to enhance political trust and mutual understanding, laying the foundation for soon elevating Vietnam-Poland relations to a strategic level.
In terms of economy and trade, the two sides agreed to continue to fully and effectively implement the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), creating favorable conditions for each other's goods to be more present in each other's markets; encourage Polish enterprises to increase investment in Vietnam in areas where Poland has strengths such as digital transformation, pharmaceuticals, food industry, manufacturing and processing industry, mineral exploitation and processing, etc. President Andrzej Duda affirmed his support for the early ratification of the Vietnam-EU Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA).
President Andrzej Duda suggested that the two sides closely coordinate to implement the agreements reached during Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's visit, making the most of existing potential and space to further promote cooperation between the two countries in key areas, while focusing on promoting the tradition of cooperation in the fields of education-training, culture and people-to-people exchange between the two countries.
President Andrzej Duda highly appreciated the contributions of the Vietnamese community to Poland. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked the Polish authorities at all levels for their support to the Vietnamese community in Poland in recent times and hoped that the community would soon be considered for recognition as a Polish ethnic minority so that they could continue to integrate deeply into the host country, contributing more effectively to the socio-economic development of Poland as well as the good traditional friendship between the two countries.
During the discussion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Polish President Andrzej Duda agreed that the two countries will continue to closely coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums, especially at the United Nations, within the framework of ASEAN-EU cooperation to contribute to peace, cooperation and development in the region and the world.
On this occasion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh respectfully conveyed President Luong Cuong's invitation to President Andrzej Duda to soon visit Vietnam again./.
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