Close talks between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – Photo: DUONG GIANG
On October 28, in Abu Dhabi, after a welcoming ceremony with 21 resounding cannon salutes solemnly held at the Presidential Palace, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a narrow meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, agreeing to upgrade bilateral relations to a Comprehensive Partnership.
UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan welcomed Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's official visit to the UAE, expressing his belief that the visit will strongly promote, create momentum, and open a new phase of cooperation between the two countries in the coming time.
6 cooperation focuses when upgrading to Comprehensive Partnership
The UAE President praised Vietnam's glorious history and development, emphasizing that Vietnam and the UAE have many things to learn from each other, and affirmed that Vietnam is an important partner of the UAE in Asia and cooperation with Vietnam is one of the UAE's main concerns.
Thanking the warm and respectful welcome, the Prime Minister expressed his admiration for the achievements that the UAE has made, turning the UAE into a leading economic, financial and technological center in the region, a "miracle in the desert" in the Middle East.
Faced with remarkable developments in bilateral relations, with greater trust and understanding, more substantive economic cooperation and mutual support, the two sides agreed to upgrade the relationship to a Comprehensive Partnership.
Thereby, the UAE becomes Vietnam's first comprehensive partner in the Middle East, with the determination and expectation to bring bilateral cooperation to a new level, more sustainable, substantive and effective.
In particular, six key priority cooperation tasks include urgently developing action programs to be immediately implemented within the framework of the Comprehensive Partnership.
Promote cooperation in innovation, green transformation, digital transformation, circular economy; create breakthroughs in bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation.
Along with that is the cooperation in developing the Halal industry and opening the market for Vietnamese Halal products. Strengthening cooperation in labor, culture, tourism, sports, and people-to-people exchange. Close coordination, consultation, and mutual support in regional and world issues at multilateral forums.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh proposed creating favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community in the UAE – Photo: DUONG GIANG
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also asked UAE authorities to create favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community living and working in the UAE.
UAE President directly directs the implementation of a number of specific projects
The UAE President affirmed that he will actively direct relevant UAE agencies to coordinate with the Vietnamese side to effectively implement the visit. In particular, the UAE President expressed his joy at the increasing number of Vietnamese workers in the UAE and affirmed that he will create conditions for Vietnamese people to settle down in the UAE and support the establishment of the Vietnam Cultural Center in the UAE.
The President also affirmed that he will directly direct the implementation of a number of specific projects such as supporting a local youth football academy in Vietnam and building a financial center in Ho Chi Minh City.
Discussing the East Sea issue, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the UAE to support the stance of ASEAN and Vietnam in the East Sea region to ensure peace, security, safety, freedom of navigation and aviation, and to resolve disputes by peaceful means on the basis of respect for international law, the United Nations Charter and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
At the end of the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh conveyed President Luong Cuong's respectful invitation to the UAE President to visit Vietnam. The UAE President happily accepted the invitation and said he would make the visit soon.
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