Party General Secretary To Lam and Dmitry Medvedev, URP Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, in Pyongyang on October 10, 2025. (Photo: VNA)

Mr. Lam stressed that Vietnam consistently regards Russia as a key strategic partner and wishes to expand collaboration across major fields such as politics, security and defense, energy and oil and gas, science and technology, education and training, and culture and humanity.

Both sides emphasized that the two Parties, States and peoples attach great importance to the traditional friendship and Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Vietnam and Russia. 

They agreed to continue promoting cooperation channels between the two Parties, welcomed exchanges between their youth, and supported collaboration between the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and the United Russia Party School.

The leaders exchanged views on regional and international issues of shared concern, underscoring the importance of multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Party leader To Lam and Chinese Premier Li Qiang (Photo: VNA)

Meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang the same day, Party leader To Lam called for continued efforts to make breakthroughs in Vietnam-China cooperation, thus turning commitments into concrete results and potential into practical benefits, particularly in expanding China’s import of Vietnamese goods, including agricultural and aquatic products; and increasing electricity exports to Vietnam.

He said priority should be given to the early completion of the three standard-gauge railway lines connecting the two countries. The two countries should properly handle sea-related issues in accordance with the common perceptions reached between their top leaders as well as international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Mr. Lam noted. 

Premier Li affirmed that the Chinese Party and State attach great importance to the two countries' comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and the building of a community with a shared future that carries strategic significance with Vietnam, and always consider this a priority in China's neighborhood diplomacy.

He called on both sides to accelerate the productive implementation of the high-level agreements and shared perceptions, enhance political trust, improve the quality and effectiveness of cooperation in all fields, consolidate public support, and properly control and address sea-related differences, thereby promoting the substantive and sustainable development of relations between the two Parties and countries.