Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.

 

Vice President Xi Jinping warly welcomed Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Vietnamese senior delegation to joined the Expo and the 9^th China-ASEAN Business-Investment Summit (CABIS), which expressed the appreciation of Vietnam Party and State toward the strategic cooperation partnership between Viet Nam and China as well as Viet Nam's support for CAEXPO and CABIS, contributing to the China-ASEAN cooperation.

On the occasion of China's 63^rd National Day, the Vietnamese PM congratulated the Chinese government and people on the great achievements they have made under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) over the past 63 years. He also wished the upcoming 18^th National Congress of the CPC success.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung highly appreciated the careful preparation of Chinese Government and the Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in organizing the China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) successfully. It is a very good opportunity for ASEAN and China to strengthen friendly exchanges and promote the China-ASEAN strategic partnership.

The two leaders agreed that the Vietnam-China friendship, fostered by the two countries’ generations of leaders and people, is a valuable asset of the two Parties, States and peoples that should be inherited, preserved and developed.

 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has affirmed that consolidating and strengthening friendly and cooperative ties between two parties is a consistent, long-term and strategic policy, and one of the top priorities of the Vietnamese Party, State and Government's policy.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping stressed that the Chinese Party, State and people attach great importance to the relations with Vietnam and are ready to be together with Vietnam to deepen their comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership.

Both leaders said they highly appreciated the outcomes of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's visit to China in October 2011, Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to Viet Nam in December 2011 and most recently, the meeting between Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang and Chinese Party General Secretary and President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the 20^th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia (September 2012)

Leaders of the two countries have achieved many important common awareness and specific measures to promote bilateral relations in the future as to maintain and enhance the visits between leaders of the two countries. The two sides will boost the practical and mutually beneficial cooperation in all aspects, particularly in economics and trade; strengthen relations between ministries, agencies and localities,and people-to-people exchange activities; enhance cooperation in regional and international issues; and promote communications on the friendship between the two peoples.

They also agreed on the need to persistently maintain peace and stability in the East Sea and satisfactorily resolve every issue through peaceful negotiations. PM Dung stressed that the most important thing now is that the two sides seriously implement common perceptions of the two countries’ high-ranking leaders and strictly abide by the agreement on basic principles guiding the settlement of sea-related issues, as well as satisfactorily resolve disputes and newly emerging issues through peaceful negotiations, on the basis of international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and in the spirit of the Declaration on Conduct of the Parties in the East Sea (DOC), advancing towards a Code of Conduct of the Parties in the East Sea (COC).

The meeting took place in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. On behalf of the Vietnamese Party, State and Government, PM Dung invited Xi to visit Vietnam after the 18^th National Congress of the CPC concludes.The Chinese Vice President accepted the invitation with pleasure, saying that the maintenance of high-ranking visits and meetings plays an important role in continuously strengthening and consolidating the relations between the two Parties, States and peoples. 

Source: Vietnam Government Portal