Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Czech Prime Minister counterpart Petr Fiala (photo: Vu Khuyen)

The two leaders agreed to soon establish an action programme to implement the Vietnam-Czech strategic partnership framework in a substantive and practical manner, in line with the cooperation framework between the two countries in the new context.

Both sides consented to enhance cooperation within the newly-established strategic partnership framework, promote cooperation in traditional areas such as defence-security, trade-investment, science-technology, education-training, culture-tourism, and people-to-people exchange, while also expanding cooperation into new growth-driving fields such as renewable energy, innovation, digital transformation, green economy, circular economy, information technology, health care, mining, energy, and food security.

The Vietnamese PM urged the Czech Government to hasten other EU countries to ratify the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) and to advocate for the European Commission (EC) to soon lift the yellow card warning on Vietnamese seafood exports. Both sides agreed to support each other in serving as gateways for their goods into the ASEAN and EU markets.