President hosts Belarusian State Security Committee Chairman
VOV.VN - President Tran Dai Quang noted with satisfaction the outcomes of the talks between the Vietnamese Minister of Public Security and Chairman of Belarus 's State Security Committee Valery Pavlovich Vakulchik in Hanoi on October 21.
The State leader welcomed the agreement reached by the two sides on specific measures to augment their cooperation concerning law enforcement and national security safeguard.
He suggested both sides should work hand in hand towards negotiating and signing agreements on mutual legal assistance , criminal extradition , and transfer of convicted prisoners, which will facilitate their future legal cooperation in the context of increasing criminal crimes.
President Sang also called for broader cooperation in other fields like security-defence, science-technology, education, health, culture, tourism and labour, and boost bonds between their localities.
The two sides need to create a breakthrough in their economic and trade ties, aiming to lift two-way trade to more than US$500 million, he added.
He used the occasion to convey his invitation to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to visit Vietnam next year.
Pavlovich Vakulchik highlighted the fruitful cooperation between Belarus's State Security Committee and the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security which, he said, has contributed to increasing the bilateral relations.
He told his host that the State Security Committee of Belarus has established cooperation with a number of ministries and sectors of Vietnam, adding that his nation is seeking to form joint ventures specializing in assembling trucks and manufacturing automobile tires in Vietnam, and importing pharmaceutical products from Vietnam.
President Alexander Lukashenko expects to welcome his Vietnamese counterpart to Belarus in the time to come, he said while stating that Belarus is keen to beef up win-win cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation.