(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam always attaches great importance to strengthening its traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China, a consistent priority in its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, self-strengthening, and multilateralisation and diversification of external relations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has said.
 Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (center) receives Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, Minister of National Defence Dong Jun, and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong. (Photo: Lai Hoa/ VOV) |
The PM made the remarks while receiving Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, Minister of National Defence Dong Jun, and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong on Monday, on the occasion of the first ministerial-level 3+3 strategic dialogue on foreign affairs, national defence and public security between the two countries.
PM Chinh asked the foreign affairs, defence and public security ministries of both countries to play a more proactive role in unceasingly strengthening political trust and mutual understanding between the two Parties, countries and peoples, and in making full use of existing cooperation mechanisms, particularly the 3+3 strategic dialogue.
 The meeting between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Chinese delegations. (Photo: Lai Hoa/ VOV) |
He proposed closer coordination between the two foreign ministries to arrange and properly organise visits and meetings at all levels. The two defence ministries should expand friendship exchanges and substantive cooperation in the defence industry and United Nations peacekeeping operations. Meanwhile, the ministries of public security need to enhance collaboration effectiveness in security, law enforcement and crime combat.
 Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: Lai Hoa/ VOV) |
The PM also called on the two countries' ministries to create favourable conditions to join hands with other ministries, sectors, and localities of both sides to foster result-oriented partnerships in areas such as economy, trade, investment, science and technology, culture, tourism, railway connectivity, locality-to-locality ties, and people-to-people exchanges, alongside reinforcing land border management, properly controlling and handling differences, and maintaining peace and stability at sea.
The Chinese ministers pledged close coordination with the Vietnamese counterparts to increase strategic exchanges, bolster political trust, take the lead in seriously and effectively implement the high-level common perceptions, and further intensify sectoral cooperation in diplomacy, defence, security and law enforcement.