Vietnam and South Korea agree to promote comprehensive strategic partnership

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son meets with South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck Soo. (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

During his official visit to South Korea from May 30 to June 1, on the morning of May 31, in Seoul, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son met with South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck Soo.

At the meeting, the Korean Prime Minister congratulated Vietnam on completing its new leadership; welcomed Minister Bui Thanh Son's official visit to Korea; and believed that the visit would be an important foundation to further promote the development of the Vietnam-Korea Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

Prime Minister Han Duck Soo expressed his good feelings for Vietnam; congratulated Vietnam on its important achievements in socio-economic development, its increasing role and position in the region; affirmed that the Korean Government always attaches importance to relations with Vietnam and considers Vietnam a key partner in implementing foreign policy in the region.

Prime Minister Han Duck Soo agreed with Minister Bui Thanh Son's opinion that the two sides need to further promote cooperation in the coming time, maintain regular high-level exchanges and contacts; effectively implement existing cooperation and dialogue mechanisms; promote substantive economic cooperation; strengthen cooperation in culture, education, tourism, labor, and people-to-people exchange; continue to maintain coordination at multilateral forums, and strengthen coordination on regional and international issues of mutual concern.

View of the meeting. (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Minister Bui Thanh Son congratulated the achievements that Korea has made, thereby contributing to making Korea a "Developed Country"; believed that the Government and people of Korea will continue to achieve even greater achievements in the coming time; at the same time, affirmed that the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to closely coordinate with the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the functional agencies of the two countries to promote the development of the bilateral relationship more strongly, substantially and comprehensively in the spirit of the agreement of the two countries' senior leaders, focusing on the effective implementation of the Action Program to implement the Vietnam-Korea Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (June 2023).

Regarding regional and international issues, Minister Bui Thanh Son thanked Korea for actively cooperating with Vietnam to successfully fulfill its role as the coordinator of ASEAN-Korea relations for the 2021-2024 period; hoped that Korea would continue to support, assist and share experiences to help Vietnam successfully organize the Partnership for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) Summit in Vietnam in 2025; asked Korea to continue supporting the stance of Vietnam and ASEAN on the East Sea issue; affirmed that Vietnam always pays attention to, supports and is ready to participate in contributing to the process of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

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