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| Indonesian President Joko Widodo. (Source: VNA) |
According to the announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the invitation of President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vo Van Thuong, President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo will pay a State visit to Vietnam from January 11-13.
This visit is the second time President Joko Widodo has paid a State visit to Vietnam (after the visit in September 2018) and is an opportunity for the two sides to continue discussing measures to promote cooperation and deepen the Strategic Partnership.
Vietnam and Indonesia are two countries with a tradition of friendly relations, built on the foundation by leaders such as President Ho Chi Minh and President Sukarno, and generations of leaders and people of the two countries, who have worked hard to cultivate it over the past 68 years. Indonesia was the first country in Southeast Asia with which Vietnam officially established diplomatic relations in 1955. After 1975, Indonesian President Suharto was the first head of state in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific to visit Vietnam in 1990. Relations between the two countries developed rapidly after Vietnam joined ASEAN, establishing a Comprehensive Partnership in 2003. Vietnam became the only Strategic Partner in Southeast Asia when the two countries upgraded their relations in 2013.
For these reasons, the good political relations and traditional friendship between the two countries continue to be a valuable asset that the senior leaders as well as the people of the two countries highly value, preserve and promote. In multilateral forums, the two countries always have close coordination and the same views on many issues of strategic importance, associated with maintaining peace, stability and security in the region. Therefore, the close relationship between the two countries is not only strategic for the development of each country but also contributes to the peace, stability and development of the Southeast Asian region in particular and the Indo-Pacific region in general.
Vietnam-Indonesia bilateral relations have continued to develop strongly in recent times, demonstrated through high-level visits and contacts such as the phone call between General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Joko Widodo (August 2022), President Nguyen Xuan Phuc's State visit to Indonesia (December 2022), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's three attendances at ASEAN Summits in Indonesia (April 2021, May 2023 and September 2023), National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue's official visit to Indonesia and attendance at AIPA-44 (August 2023)...
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