Malaysian PM leaves Hanoi, concludes Vietnam visit
VOV.VN - Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob and his entourage left Hanoi on March 22, ending their March 20-22 official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
During his stay, the Malaysian Prime Minister held talks with the Vietnamese Prime Minister and witnessed the exchange of cooperation documents between the two countries.
He paid a courtesy visit to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and met with State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
Both sides highly appreciated the strong and substantive development of the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Malaysia in recent times.
They affirmed their commitment to deepening political and economic cooperation by promoting and maintaining regular high-level contacts, consolidating existing bilateral cooperation mechanisms, especially Joint Commission on Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation (JCM) and Joint Committee on Trade (JTC).
They agreed to continue working closely for the effective implementation of their signed agreements, including the Vietnam – Malaysia Plan of Action for implementation of the Strategic Partnership for 2021 – 2025.
The leaders emphasised the importance of steadily promoting a strong, balanced and sustainable two-way trade striving towards the target of US$18 billion by 2025 with a view to having balanced trade between both countries.
Notably, the two sides agreed to speed up the negotiation of a new bilateral aviation agreement and welcomed the early completion of an agreement on mutual recognition of vaccine certificates.
While staying in Hanoi, the Malaysian Prime Minister also had meetings with some typical Vietnamese businesses, and the Malaysian community in Vietnam.
Both countries issued a joint press statement on Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob’s visit to Vietnam.
