Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh receives US Congressional Delegation

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that Vietnam always attaches importance to the Comprehensive Partnership with the United States.

Thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính tiếp Thượng nghị sĩ Hoa Kỳ Mike Crapo. (Nguồn: TTXVN)

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh receives US Senator Mike Crapo. (Source: VNA)

On May 26, at the Government headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received a delegation of the US Senate led by Senator Mike Crapo visiting and working in Vietnam.

At the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that Vietnam always attaches importance to the Comprehensive Partnership with the United States, highly appreciating the fact that the two sides have maintained high-level contacts in recent times, especially the very successful phone call between General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and US President Joe Biden.

The Prime Minister suggested that in the coming time, the two sides continue to promote cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, investment, science and technology, education and training, innovation, digital transformation, and response to climate change; and asked the Senators to support the US in opening its market, limiting anti-dumping investigations and trade defense measures against Vietnamese goods, especially agricultural, forestry and fishery products, which directly affect people's jobs and livelihoods.

The Prime Minister also asked the US Congress to continue paying attention and devoting resources to cooperation with Vietnam to overcome the consequences of war and create favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community in the US.

The US Senators expressed their good impressions of the country, people and development of Vietnam, supported Vietnam to be “strong, independent, self-reliant and prosperous”, respected Vietnam’s independence, sovereignty and political institutions; said they would make efforts to promote the relationship between the two countries to be more substantive and effective, wished to strongly develop trade and investment relations, and supported the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements of which the two countries are members.

The Senators affirmed their support for the views of Vietnam and ASEAN on the East Sea issue, emphasizing the need to maintain peace, stability, freedom, security, and safety of navigation and aviation in the East Sea.

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