Prime Minister visits three Middle Eastern countries, opens up new development space, many industries benefit

In the spirit of the Prime Minister's direction to value 'time' and 'intelligence', the results of the visit to the three Middle Eastern countries will soon be implemented to become a reality.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son - Photo: N.HONG

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh recently visited three Middle Eastern countries from October 27 to November 1, with a busy schedule and achieved many important results.

Before concluding the visit, the Prime Minister visited Ras Laffan Industrial Zone - home to many of Qatar's large oil refineries and gas processing plants such as ORYX GTL, Pearl GTL, Dolphin... and the world's largest artificial port, the main liquefied gas production site of Qatar and the world's largest liquefied gas export facility.

Responding to the press, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said the visit was an important milestone, demonstrating the developing relationship between Vietnam and the three countries and having special significance.

New strategic thinking vision

According to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, the visit affirmed Vietnam's new strategic thinking, vision, and determination in bringing relations with the three key countries of the Gulf region into a new phase, stronger, more comprehensive, with deeper trust, and more open opportunities.

Therefore, the visit has elevated the relationship between Vietnam and the three countries in particular, and the Middle East - North Africa region in general.

The official upgrading of relations with the UAE to Comprehensive Partnership has opened up new development space, expanding the Comprehensive Partnership network to 13 countries.

At the same time, the agreement between Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to soon elevate relations to a new level has created momentum for comprehensive development of friendship and multifaceted cooperation, creating leverage to strengthen relations with other important partners in the Middle East - North Africa region.

The visit also demonstrates innovative thinking, strategic vision, strong commitment, and decisive action in promoting multifaceted cooperation with the potential Middle East region.

That is opening more export markets, attracting high-quality investment from investment funds and leading corporations in the world.

Priority areas include artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, clean energy, green transformation, digital transformation, innovation and Halal industry development...

Imprint of 33 cooperation documents in many fields

* Could you share more specifically about the main results of the Prime Minister's visit to three Middle Eastern countries?

- The Prime Minister had a busy working program with nearly 60 activities. Many important documents were approved, including the Joint Statement on upgrading Vietnam - UAE relations to Comprehensive Partnership, a joint press release between Vietnam and Qatar, etc.

There have been 33 cooperation documents in the fields of trade - investment, finance, energy, innovation, standards, measurement and quality, education - training, sports, and cooperation between enterprises.

This will create the basis for promoting cooperation in all fields between Vietnam and the three countries to develop more strongly.

With the results achieved, the visit deepened political trust and consolidated good personal relations between the Vietnamese leaders and the leaders of the three countries, with the determination to develop bilateral relations in a practical, effective and long-term manner.

Accordingly, many substantial and breakthrough results in the fields of economic, trade and investment cooperation have been achieved. Including the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with the UAE, aiming to increase two-way trade turnover to 20 billion USD in the coming time...

With Saudi Arabia, the two sides agreed on a trade turnover target of 10 billion USD; promoting this country to become the leading investor in Vietnam...

With Qatar, they also agreed on efforts to increase trade turnover, study the establishment of a Joint Working Group on Trade; consider the possibility of building a Vietnam Product Exhibition Center in Qatar; promote financial cooperation...

Another highlight was the Prime Minister's attendance at the 8th Future Investment Initiative Conference. The Prime Minister's speech sent a message about Vietnam as innovative, dynamic and ready to exchange, share and jointly propose investment initiatives with other countries for a sustainable and prosperous future.

So what is the direction for implementing the results achieved from the visit in the coming time, Deputy Prime Minister?

Above With the spirit of valuing "time" and "intelligence" as Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized, we need to be determined to realize the above results. That is to prioritize strengthening cooperation in all fields of politics - diplomacy, defense - security, technology, agriculture, industry, energy, tourism...

Regularly and specifically discuss with the two sides' focal points agreed upon during the visit in the spirit of "what is said must be done, what is committed must be implemented".

Concretize signed agreements and commitments. Proactively review signed cooperation agreements, including the CEPA Agreement between Vietnam and the UAE. Develop specific action plans to ensure the highest progress and implementation efficiency.

Vietnam will continue to improve the investment and business environment, creating favorable conditions for Vietnamese and foreign enterprises to increase investment and business cooperation with each other.

At the same time, it is necessary to promote people-to-people exchanges, promote cultural, educational and tourism exchange activities. Create the most favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community living, working and studying in the three countries to stabilize their lives, work with peace of mind for a long time, contributing to being a solid bridge for the friendly and cooperative relations between Vietnam and the three countries.

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