Deputy PM Tran Luu Quang meets with Chinese FM Wang Yi
VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Chairman of the Vietnam Sub-Committee in the Vietnam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, had a meeting with Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Director of the Office of the CPC Central Committee’s Commission for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China in Beijing on April 8.
The meeting was held within the framework of the ongoing China visit by National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
The two sides held in-depth discussions on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of mutual concern, thereby agreeing to promote and effectively implement the joint declaration on continuing to deepen and enhance the comprehensive strategic co-operative partnership, as well as building a community of a shared future that has strategic significance as agreed by the two countries’ top leaders.
According to the results of the meeting, the two sides agreed to jointly implement high-level exchanges and contacts at all levels and sectors, thereby better enhancing the role of the Steering Committee in urging and reviewing the situation of concretising high-level common perceptions.
This should be done alongside the effective implementation of defence and security co-operation activities, while also strengthening strategic connections, especially rail and road transport infrastructure; accelerating the opening, upgrading, and recognition of border gate pairs, as well as effectively deploying the pilot construction of smart border gates; and facilitating Vietnamese goods transiting through Chinese railways to third countries via the Asia – Europe railway.
The two sides concurred to strengthen the organisation of local and people-to-people exchange activities as a means of contributing to solidifying the social foundation and maintaining the exchange and co-ordination on international and regional issues of shared concern.
They will closely co-ordinate in border management and protection according to three legal documents on land borders and controlling disagreements at sea according to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
