Vietnam and Brazil appreciate the potential for cooperation between the two football cultures.

Within the framework of the State visit to Vietnam of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the afternoon of March 28, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh welcomed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the high-ranking Brazilian delegation to Vietnam; recalled his deep impressions of the country and people of Brazil and his meetings with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, most recently during his official visit to Brazil in September 2023 and the bilateral talks in November 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, where the two sides issued a Declaration on upgrading bilateral relations to a Strategic Partnership.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his pleasure to meet Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh again during his second visit to Vietnam after 17 years, witnessing Vietnam's achievements after nearly 40 years of Doi Moi; highly appreciated and congratulated the Vietnamese Government on its recent socio-economic management results.

The President reaffirmed that Brazil always attaches importance to the Strategic Partnership with Vietnam, and considers Vietnam a gateway to strengthen relations with the potential Asia-Pacific region.

The two leaders agreed to continue to elevate and further concretize the Strategic Partnership framework, bringing cooperation in all fields to a new height, meeting the potential and development needs of the two countries.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

In that spirit, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva especially welcomed the recent signing of the Action Plan to implement the Vietnam-Brazil Strategic Partnership; affirmed to continue to closely coordinate to implement the agreed directions and measures to concretize the new relationship framework for the 2025-2030 period in an effective and substantive manner.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also expressed satisfaction with the impressive development of bilateral trade, with turnover reaching approximately 8 billion USD in 2024, and reaffirmed the determination to bring bilateral turnover to 15 billion USD by 2030.

The two sides agreed to increase the sharing of good experiences in national governance and socio-economic policy implementation; strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, especially in fundamental industries such as manufacturing, supporting industries, agricultural processing, new materials, chemicals, and renewable energy, contributing to supporting the green and sustainable growth goals of the two countries.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Brazilian Government for deciding to recognize Vietnam's market economy status, creating favorable conditions for businesses of the two countries to access each other's markets in a fair and mutually beneficial manner.

The Prime Minister announced that Vietnam is ready to open its market to Brazilian beef as part of the overall package of opening the agricultural market that will be agreed upon between the two countries, including Vietnamese tra fish and shrimp products.

The Prime Minister welcomed large Brazilian enterprises considering investing in Vietnam, including JBS SA Group in the food processing sector.

The Prime Minister affirmed that he will direct Vietnamese ministries and sectors to create favorable conditions for trade and investment activities of Brazilian enterprises in Vietnam, especially in the fields of aviation and minerals.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva agreed to direct Brazilian authorities to actively consider Vietnam’s proposal to soon launch negotiations on a trade agreement framework between Vietnam and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) to facilitate businesses of both sides to access each other’s markets and connect supply chains, bringing about substantial results for businesses and people of the two countries.

The two leaders also agreed to promote delegations at ministerial, sectoral, local and business levels from Brazil to continue exchanges during and immediately after the Brazilian President's visit to concretize high-level bilateral agreements; agreed to regularly, effectively and flexibly implement the Joint Economic-Trade Committee and Political Consultation mechanism, and establish appropriate mechanisms to regularly review and coordinate the implementation of the new relationship framework.

The two sides also highly appreciated the potential for cooperation between the two football foundations, agreed to encourage cooperation and training of youth football, at both club and national team levels, contributing to strengthening the friendship between the people of the two countries.

At the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shared views on a number of international issues, agreed to support efforts to enhance the effectiveness, democracy and transparency of global governance mechanisms, and continue to closely coordinate and support each other at international organizations and multilateral forums.

On this occasion, the President of Brazil respectfully invited Vietnam to send a high-level delegation to attend the BRICS Summit and the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP30) in Brazil in 2025.

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