Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son will pay an official visit to China.

(CPV) - The official visit to China by Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son is of great significance, demonstrating the importance the two countries attach to the Vietnam-China friendship.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son (Photo: baoquocte.vn).

At a regular press conference on the afternoon of March 28, Deputy Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Duc Thang said that at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son will pay an official visit to China from April 3-4, 2024. The Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership has continued to be maintained and developed positively in recent times, achieving many important results. Leaders of the two Parties and two countries have maintained regular exchanges and contacts, consolidating political trust. Notably, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will visit China in October 2022, followed by a State visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping in December 2023. The two sides issued a Joint Statement on continuing to deepen and elevate the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, building a community of shared future between Vietnam and China, which has strategic significance, opening a new stage of development in the cooperative relationship between the two Parties and the two countries. Economic, trade, investment and tourism cooperation between the two countries continues to have new and increasingly substantive developments. According to Deputy Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Duc Thang: The official visit to China by Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son is an important visit, demonstrating the importance that the two countries attach to the Vietnam-China friendship. The visit also aims to continue to concretize the high-level common perception in maintaining the positive development momentum of the Vietnam-China relationship. This is also an opportunity for the two sides to review and identify key tasks in bilateral relations in 2024 and the following years, thereby contributing to further deepening and enhancing the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and building a community of shared future of strategic significance. During the visit, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son is expected to hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, meet with leaders of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, visit the Ho Chi Minh Memorial House in Longzhou (Guangxi) and participate in a number of other important activities./.

Manh Hung - Communist Party of Vietnam Portal

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