Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan meets First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Vit Rakusan

Affirming that Vietnam always values and wishes to strengthen relations with the Czech Republic, the Vice President asked Prague to have a voice in pushing the remaining EU countries to soon ratify the Investment Protection Agreement. between the EU and Vietnam (EVIPA) and support the European Commission to soon lift the IUU "yellow card" imposed on Vietnamese seafood exports.

The two sides agreed to further effective cooperation in traditional fields like education and training, science and technology, information and communication, agriculture, culture, and tourism, while expanding cooperation in renewable energy, digital transformation, green transformation, and automobile industry. They stressed the need to promote negotiations, sign cooperation agreements on education and labor, and establish cultural centers.

Emphasizing the importance of parliamentary cooperation, the Vice President and the President of the Czech Senate voiced their support for delegation exchange activities between the two countries' legislative bodies to share experiences in law-making and supervision, while closely coordinating and supporting each other at inter-parliamentary forums.

Later on Thursday, Vice President Xuan met with President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel. The two leaders agreed to continue to effectively implement the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), create favorable conditions for each other's goods to have more presence in each side's market and serve as a gateway for each other to enter the ASEAN and EU markets.

They agreed on the need to update bilateral cooperation agreements to suit the new development stage, study the possibility of opening direct flights between the two countries, and boost people-to-people exchanges.

Both sides pledged to continue to coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums and unanimously agreed that all disputes and conflicts should be resolved by peaceful means, in accordance with the United Nations Charter and respect for international law.