PM Pham Minh Chinh and PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra at the welcome ceremony in Hanoi on May 16, 2025.

PM Chinh told reporters following the 4th Vietnam-Thailand Joint Cabinet Retreat the same day that the meeting took place successfully, stressing the two sides reached consensus on many key strategic orientations.

The elevation of the bilateral relationship is an objective and strategic requirement to advance our ties into a new stage of deeper, broader, more substantial, and more comprehensive development, said the Vietnamese PM.

The two sides agreed to promptly develop an action program to implement the comprehensive strategic partnership for the 2025–2030 period, built on three key pillars: partnership for sustainable peace, partnership for sustainable development, and partnership for a sustainable future. 

At the Joint Cabinet Retreat co-chaired by PM Chinh and PM Paetongtarn, the two sides agreed to expand cooperation in security-defense, law and justice, and combating transnational crime. They reaffirmed their pledge not to allow any individual or organization to use one country’s territory against the other.

The two sides agreed to strengthen economic connectivity to raise bilateral trade to 25 billion USD in the near future. Both sides will promote people-to-people exchanges; encourage the launch of more direct flights between the two countries; and work to realize the tourism connectivity initiative “Six Countries, One Destination.”

They emphasized the importance of upholding ASEAN’s solidarity, resilience, and unity in diversity, reinforcing the Association’s central role, and maintaining peace, stability, security, safety, and freedom of navigation in the East Sea in accordance with international law. They also supported the early adoption of the Code of Conduct in the EastSea (COC).