From June 30 to July 3, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife will pay an official visit to South Korea, at the invitation of South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck Soo and his wife.
This is the first time Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has officially visited South Korea. The visit takes place exactly one year after South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol visited Vietnam in June 2023.
Speaking to the press before the trip, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Vu said this was the first official visit to South Korea by a senior Vietnamese leader since the two countries upgraded their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2022.
Bringing bilateral relations to new heights
The visit takes place in the context of Vietnam - Korea relations developing at their best ever, according to Mr. Vu.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs said that Korea is Vietnam's leading economic partner; ranking first in direct investment and tourism, second in development cooperation, and third in trade and labor cooperation.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu (Photo: Hong Phong).
Korea is also a country with a large number of Vietnamese people living, working and studying. Conversely, there are also many Koreans living, working and studying in Vietnam.
Therefore, according to Deputy Minister Vu, this official visit to Korea by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife is of utmost importance.
First of all, Mr. Vu emphasized that the visit demonstrates the importance that the leaders of the Vietnamese Party and State attach to the comprehensive strategic partnership with the Republic of Korea. The visit also demonstrates the desire to concretize the implementation of agreements between the two countries' senior leaders.
"The visit will be an opportunity for both sides to review new developments in the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries, discuss strategic issues, national defense and security, economic, trade and investment cooperation, aiming to bring the bilateral relationship to a new height with higher political trust and more substantive and comprehensive cooperation," the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs affirmed.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck Soo within the framework of the World Economic Forum (WEF Davos 2024) in mid-January (Photo: Duong Giang).
In the context of the rapidly and complicated developments in the international and regional situation, Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Vu said that the visit aims to affirm Vietnam's foreign policy of continuing to attach importance to the friendly and cooperative relationship with Korea; wishing to contribute to maintaining and promoting peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.
Economic cooperation is a bright spot
According to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu, during this official visit to Korea, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is expected to have more than 30 activities.
In addition to official programs with senior Korean leaders, the Prime Minister will attend and speak at three forums, including the Business Forum, the Tourism Promotion and Cultural Cooperation Forum, the Vietnam - Korea Labor Forum; and two seminars, including a seminar with leaders of Korean economic organizations and a seminar with Korean intellectuals and scientists on semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
The Prime Minister will also meet with representatives of leaders of several leading Korean economic groups investing in Vietnam.
In addition, the Prime Minister will visit the Embassy and meet with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Korea; visit a Vietnamese-Korean multicultural family, deliver a policy speech at Seoul National University and visit the Samsung Group's semiconductor factory in Pyeongtaek city, Gyeonggi province.
"The Prime Minister's activities during this visit to Korea are very comprehensive, including activities with politicians, economic and financial circles, and people-to-people friendship organizations, as well as meetings with the Vietnamese community in Korea," said Mr. Vu.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai and South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Kyungho Choo signed the Minutes of the second Vietnam-South Korea Deputy Prime Minister-level Economic Dialogue in March 2023 (Photo: VGP).
In addition, he said that more than half of the Prime Minister's activities during this visit will focus on the economic sector.
"Economic cooperation has always been a bright spot and an important pillar contributing to promoting the substantive development of bilateral relations," the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs emphasized.
Korea continues to maintain its leading position in direct investment, with a total registered capital of 87 billion USD; a major partner in the top group in terms of trade turnover, reaching nearly 80 billion USD in 2023 and a major partner in development cooperation (ODA), tourism and labor.
Besides, Korea is a developed country, with many strengths in economic development, high technology, semiconductors, and artificial intelligence.
Through diverse activities with the Korean economic community during this visit, the leader of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Vietnam expects the two sides to improve the quality and quantity of economic, trade, investment cooperation and supply chain diversification; strengthen cooperation in future fields such as semiconductors, supporting industries, digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy, climate change response; promote labor cooperation, cultural industry, and tourism cooperation between the two countries.
"The two sides can achieve the goal of soon increasing bilateral trade turnover to 100 billion USD and aiming for 150 billion USD by 2030 in a balanced and sustainable manner, contributing to the implementation of the "Strategic Vision" on national development with the goal of becoming a high-income developed country of Vietnam by 2045," Mr. Vu emphasized.
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