From September 23-26, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid an official visit to Brazil at the invitation of President Lula da Silva.
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| At noon on September 23, local time, the plane carrying Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese delegation landed at Guarulhos International Airport, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo: Doan Bac) |
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| Immediately after arriving in Brazil, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and worked with the Embraer aerospace corporation headquartered in São José dos Campos, São Paulo state. Embraer President and CEO Francisco Gomes Neto introduced Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to the exhibition area of Embraer's aircraft models and modern production infrastructure. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Mr. Francisco Gomes Neto highly appreciated the potential of the Vietnamese market, which is suitable for the group's existing aircraft models, especially for short flights and not too large number of passengers; expressed his desire to continue receiving the attention and support of the Vietnamese Government in the process of seeking cooperation opportunities and expanding the market; ready to deploy aircraft maintenance and repair services in Vietnam, as well as providing technological solutions in the aviation sector. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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| Immediately afterwards, the head of the Government had a warm and friendly meeting with the Vietnamese community in Brazil. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his delegation brought cakes and candies with the taste of their homeland and celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival early with the people there. The Prime Minister hoped that the people would continue to unite, turn towards their homeland and take care of a prosperous and happy life. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| In particular, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh repeatedly emphasized that the community of overseas Vietnamese, including the Vietnamese community in Brazil, must always unite to develop together, thereby turning towards their homeland and contributing to the development of their homeland. The Prime Minister said that during his talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, he would ask Brazil to continue creating favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community to live and do business stably and legally in the country. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| A business dialogue between the Prime Minister of Vietnam and Brazilian businesses. The dialogue was attended by large businesses that are currently investing in Vietnam. The Prime Minister hopes that Brazilian businesses will come to Vietnam to invest, produce and do business more in the spirit of win-win, "harmonious benefits, shared risks". (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| The head of government also stated: "Brazilians can rest assured to come to Vietnam to invest and do business. Vietnam complies with international commitments, the problem is that the two countries find a way to come together. Maybe we still lack information, are concerned about geographical distance, and do not fully understand each other's markets, so we need to strengthen business connections." The Prime Minister hopes that Brazilian businesses will spread this spirit, because the two countries have a good political relationship. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Visiting the Corinthians football club in Sao Paulo, the Prime Minister said that Brazilian football in every era has produced great players and football legends, such as Pele, Romario, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo... He also said that Vietnamese people are very passionate about football and admire Brazilian football. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Assessing the potential for cooperation in culture, sports, especially high-performance sports, including football between the two countries as limitless, the Prime Minister suggested that Brazil and Corinthians club increase cooperation activities, support Vietnam in developing football such as training and educating players, especially improving players' physical strength and skills, improving management capacity, developing brands, mobilizing and managing resources, organizing competitions, as well as continuing to "export" Brazilian players to compete in Vietnam and Vietnamese players to compete in Brazil... (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| After concluding his activities in Sao Paulo, the Prime Minister headed to the capital Brasilia and had his first meeting with Ms. Luciana Santos, President of the Brazilian Communist Party. The Prime Minister hoped that Ms. Luciana Santos, in her capacity as President of the Brazilian Communist Party and in other positions such as Minister of Science and Technology of Brazil, would continue to pay attention to, support and promote cooperation with Vietnam. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Expressing her great admiration for President Ho Chi Minh, Ms. Luciana Santos affirmed that the revolutionary struggle of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people, both flexible and resilient like the “Vietnamese bamboo”, has strongly inspired the Brazilian Communist Party, the progressive and peace-loving forces of Brazil and the Latin American region. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Immediately afterwards, a warm, sincere and open meeting between the head of government and Mr. Pedro de Olivera, Secretary General and members of the Brazil-Vietnam Friendship Association took place. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hoped that the Brazil-Vietnam Friendship Association would support Brazil and Vietnam in negotiating and signing multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements, investment protection agreements, double taxation avoidance agreements, etc. to promote economic cooperation; contributing to bringing the relationship between the two countries to a new level, beneficial to each country, each country's people and for peace, cooperation, friendship and development in the region and the world. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Members of the Brazil-Vietnam Friendship Association expressed their admiration for Vietnam's struggle for independence, as well as its current socio-economic development and integration; affirmed that they will continue to promote the bilateral relationship to become more substantive and effective, especially in the fields of trade-investment, agriculture, food processing, etc. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Brazil and praised the working spirit of the embassy staff because “few people, much work, large area, high demands” but everyone still tried, united to complete the task of promoting the relationship between the two countries better and better. Thanks to that effort, Brazilian friends have a good understanding of Vietnam, assessed Vietnam's innovation as very effective and were impressed with Vietnam's resilient but flexible bamboo diplomacy. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the embassy staff to focus on promoting cultural, educational, sports and people-to-people exchanges; coordinate with multilateral forums to support each other, especially supporting ASEAN's central role in the East Sea issue. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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| On September 25, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the official welcoming ceremony hosted by Brazilian President Lula da Silva. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Brazilian President Lula da Silva hugged and held hands tightly, showing the close relationship between the leaders of the two countries despite being half a world away. The two leaders of Vietnam and Brazil held talks immediately afterwards in an atmosphere of openness, trust, sincerity and practicality. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| The two sides agreed to continue to promote the launch of negotiations on a free trade agreement between Vietnam and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR); agreed to step up exchanges to soon reach an agreement on Brazil recognizing Vietnam's market economy status; and promote the signing of a double taxation avoidance agreement. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and President Lula da Silva approved the Joint Communiqué of the visit. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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| The two leaders witnessed the signing of four documents: Agreement on educational cooperation between the Government of Vietnam and the Government of Brazil; Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam and the Ministry of National Defense of Brazil; Action Plan for the period 2024-2026 to implement the Memorandum of Understanding on agricultural cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil; Action Plan for the implementation of cooperation for the period 2024-2025 between the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam and the Rio Branco Institute, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and President Lula da Silva met with the press. The Brazilian leader expressed his wish that the two countries would increasingly strengthen two-way cooperation, and was ready to continue purchasing Vietnamese products and exporting goods to Vietnam in the direction of a balanced trade balance; and expressed his wish to export high-tech products and machinery to Vietnam such as airplanes. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that he and the Brazilian President issued a joint statement and witnessed the signing ceremony of bilateral cooperation documents in the fields of diplomacy, defense, education, and agriculture. “These documents will certainly create conditions for further development of the cooperative relationship, bringing practical benefits to both Vietnam and Brazil,” the Prime Minister emphasized. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| Meeting with Chairman of the Brazil-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group Márcio Honaiser and member parliamentarians, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested that the Brazilian House of Representatives and Senate and the Vietnamese National Assembly strengthen coordination and mutual support to promote high-level contacts and delegation exchanges at all levels in the coming time; enhance cooperation activities between the two parliaments in the areas of sharing legislative experience, promoting the role of the parliament in the political system, parliamentary diplomacy, and coordinating and supporting each other at multilateral international parliamentary forums. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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Mr. Márcio Honaiser said that the Brazilian House of Representatives not only wants to strengthen the Brazil-Vietnam relationship but also wants Vietnam to have good relations with MERCOSUR, as well as between Brazil and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); affirmed that it will pay attention and encourage Federal Parliamentarians to promote the launch of the Vietnam-MERCOSUR FTA negotiations, as well as the Brazilian Government to recognize Vietnam's market economy status and expressed its desire to visit Vietnam to promote cooperation with more specific and diverse contents. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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| On the last day of the working trip, at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister delivered a policy speech to many Brazilian diplomats and policymakers. The Prime Minister said that the event was like a discussion to learn from experiences in national development policies and shared three major issues: Vietnam's struggle for independence; Vietnam's process of innovation, integration and development; Vietnam-Brazil relations in the new context. (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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Commenting on the Vietnam-Brazil relationship, the Prime Minister said that the two countries have a close bond and share many similarities, so it is necessary to continue to strengthen cooperation in many fields, promoting key areas such as politics, diplomacy, economy, trade, agriculture, culture, sports, innovation, etc. With many new opportunities, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh believes that the Vietnam-Brazil relationship will soon "bear fruit". (Photo: Nguyen Hong) |
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| The exhibition about President Ho Chi Minh, the country and people of Vietnam and enjoying the performance and cultural and artistic exchange with Brazilian friends with the theme "Vietnam - Colors" is the final activity during the official visit to Brazil of the Prime Minister and the high-ranking delegation of Vietnam. The exhibition "Ho Chi Minh - Portrait of a man" displays nearly 200 photos and documents, sketching the portrait of the great leader of the Vietnamese people through 4 parts of content: Homeland, family and the passionate years of youth of President Ho Chi Minh; President Ho Chi Minh in the cause of "the resistance will definitely win, the nation building will definitely succeed"; President Ho Chi Minh in daily life; Ho Chi Minh - the symbol of friendship around the world. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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| With performances rich in identity, imbued with national character, quintessential and unique, the art program “Vietnam – Colors” took the audience down the stream of Vietnamese culture, with dances and melodies from the northern highlands of Vietnam, folk songs from the Northern Delta, to the sounds of the windy Central Highlands, the vibrant sounds of the Southern land, combined with the colors of traditional Ao Dai, honoring the graceful beauty of Vietnamese women. In particular, to express the good friendship between the two countries, artists from the Vietnam National Music, Dance and Dance Theater performed Brazilian music with traditional Vietnamese instruments. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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| These are meaningful activities to celebrate the traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Brazil, promote mutual understanding between the people of the two countries, thereby contributing to strengthening extensive cooperation in all fields, including the pillars of cultural, sports and tourism cooperation, bringing bilateral relations to greater depth, substance and effectiveness. (Photo: Duong Giang) |
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