The two Prime Ministers of Vietnam and India agreed to adopt a Joint Statement on Enhancing the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during the visit and agreed to promote bilateral cooperation with the motto “5 more.”
According to VNA special correspondent, on the afternoon of August 1, at the Prime Minister's Office in New Delhi, right after the successful talks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint press conference to inform about the results of the talks.
In front of a large number of Indian, Vietnamese and international press reporters and leaders of ministries, sectors and agencies of the two countries; welcoming Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on behalf of the Indian people, once again expressed condolences to the Vietnamese people on the passing of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
Reviewing the development of Vietnam-India relations, with the important contribution of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, especially after the two countries upgraded their relationship to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, the Indian Prime Minister said that during his talks with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, the two sides discussed in detail, reviewed the results and proposed directions to promote bilateral cooperation in all fields.
Vietnam and India both have national development strategies with long-term visions, implementing 100-year goals; agreeing to continue promoting the Vietnam-India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to new heights.
During the State visit of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, the two sides agreed on a number of specific cooperation programs and projects such as military information exchange; maritime cooperation, anti-terrorism, cyber security; reviewing and finalizing the ASEAN-India free trade agreement; supporting electronic payments; cooperating and supporting each other in developing green economy and emerging sectors; supporting and complementing each other, especially in areas where one side has strengths and the other side has needs; making efforts to connect private, small and medium enterprises, startups; agriculture, fisheries; culture, etc. India hopes to welcome more Vietnamese people to make pilgrimages to the land of Buddha and to study and research in India.
According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vietnam strongly supports India's Look East Policy and supports India's increasingly important role in important regional and global cooperation institutions; India supports Vietnam's participation in the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) and completion of procedures to join the International Solar Alliance (ISA) initiated by India; affirming that Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's State visit to India this time opens a new chapter in the relationship between the two countries.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh respectfully thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the leaders and people of India for sending their deep condolences and sending the National Security Advisor to pay their respects to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong; and conveyed the best wishes and warm regards of President To Lam and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the leaders of India.
Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Indian friends for their thoughtful, respectful and warm welcome, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had just had a sincere, trustworthy, warm, open, practical and effective meeting, reaching many common perceptions and important results.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh congratulated Mr. Narendra Modi, the Indian People's Party (BJP) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on their historic victory in the recent 18th Lok Sabha election and believed that under the leadership of Mr. Narendra Modi in his third consecutive term as Prime Minister, India will achieve the vision of "Viksit Bharat 2047," realizing the 100-year goal of making India a developed country by 2047, with an increasingly high role and position in the international arena, contributing to the prosperity and development of the region and the world.
The Prime Minister said that at the talks, the two sides shared a strategic vision of today's world, especially the unprecedented changes related to nature and human development. In particular, the 4.0 industrial revolution and artificial intelligence have fundamentally changed the production method, the way the world operates as well as human behavior; digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy, knowledge economy, sharing economy, combating climate change... are becoming inevitable and objective requirements and development trends.
The two sides recognized that the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions play a leading role in world economic growth but are also where competition between major powers is fierce.
Security challenges, especially non-traditional security, are increasingly complex, global, all-people and comprehensive. That requires a holistic, comprehensive mindset of each country as well as solidarity and close cooperation of all countries, with a holistic, all-people and global approach and solutions.
According to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were pleased to acknowledge the great progress and achievements in the bilateral relationship, especially since the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2016.
The two sides reaffirmed the priority and respect that Vietnam and India give to each other in their foreign policies; agreed to continue to cherish, preserve, consolidate and enhance the traditional relationship between Vietnam and India as sincere, trustworthy and loyal friends, standing side by side throughout history, at present and in the future; strive to find a breakthrough to bring bilateral relations to new heights, and strengthen the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries in the new strategic period.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the two sides agreed that Vietnam and India have high political trust; similar cultures and civilizations, shared ideas; complementary economies; shared aspirations to build a strong and prosperous country, and still have much potential and room for cooperation. They need to promote cooperation more strongly to keep up with the general trend of the times, as well as serve the legitimate and legal rights and interests of the people and realize the development goals of each country.
In that spirit, the two Prime Ministers and high-ranking delegates of the two countries agreed to adopt a Joint Statement on Strengthening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during the visit and agreed to promote bilateral cooperation with the motto of “5 more,” including higher political-strategic trust; broader and deeper defense-security cooperation; more substantive and effective vision and actions for economic, trade and investment cooperation; stronger driving force for science and technology and innovation cooperation; and closer cultural, tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
According to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, the two sides agreed to further deepen regional and international cooperation; continue to coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums, especially the United Nations, ASEAN and ASEAN-led mechanisms; promote peaceful dialogue, build trust among countries; promote ASEAN's central role; and promote Mekong Sub-region cooperation mechanisms.
The two sides reaffirmed the importance of ensuring a peaceful, stable, secure, safe and free environment for navigation and aviation in the East Sea; resolving disputes by peaceful means on the basis of respect for international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); agreed to exchange and share information and enhance cooperation, striving to turn the East Sea into a sea of peace, stability, friendship, cooperation and development.
Earlier, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the adoption of a Joint Statement on strengthening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and pressed the button to inaugurate the Military Software Park in Nha Trang.
The two Prime Ministers also witnessed the exchange of nine cooperation documents between the two countries and their ministries, branches and agencies. In particular, along with the "Vietnam-India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Action Plan for the 2024-2028 period" and the Diplomatic Note on Vietnam's accession to the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), the ministries, branches and agencies of the two sides signed and exchanged cooperation documents in the following fields: law and justice; radio and television; finance; culture and cultural preservation; tourism; medicinal plant production; agriculture; education and training.../.
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