Son welcomed Szijjarto’s visit, considering it an important activity to strengthen the Vietnam-Hungary Comprehensive Partnership, especially as the two countries are celebrating the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations (1950-2025).

Vietnam highly values and wishes to enhance multifaceted cooperation with Hungary, its first Comprehensive Partner in Central and Eastern Europe, affirmed the Deputy PM.

Szijjarto for is part expressed his admiration for Vietnam’s socio-economic development achievements and international integration in recent years. He highly appreciated Vietnam’s increasingly important role and position in the region and the world, and said Hungary always seeks to strengthen its relations with Vietnam, one of its most important partners in Southeast Asia.

Both host and guest held that, over the past 75 years, the traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Hungary have been continuously fostered and developed positively across various fields, particularly in politics and diplomacy, trade, investment, development cooperation, culture, education, and health care.

Hungary is currently one of Vietnam’s major trading partners in Central and Eastern Europe, while Vietnam is one of Hungary’s most promising markets in Asia. Despite global economic challenges, bilateral trade has maintained positive growth, consistently reaching approximately US$1 billion per year in recent years.

The two sides agreed that there remains significant potential to further strengthen bilateral cooperation. They also reached a consensus on measures to enhance cooperation in key areas in the coming period, including increasing high-level delegation exchanges and continuing close coordination and mutual support at multilateral forums such as the United Nations and ASEAN-EU cooperation framework.

Vietnam and Hungary will closely coordinate to fully leverage the opportunities provided by the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA); facilitate the increased presence of agricultural and seafood products from both countries in each other’s markets; and encourage Hungarian enterprises to invest more in sectors where Vietnam has demand and Hungary has strengths, such as pharmaceuticals, livestock farming, food processing, and water management, they said.

The two diplomats also emphasized the importance of expediting the ratification of the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) to benefit the investor and business communities of both sides.

They agreed to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in education, nuclear power workforce training, agriculture, environment, defence, security, culture, tourism, health care, information and communications technology, and climate change response.

They also committed to promptly negotiating and signing an agreement on the readmission of citizens to establish a legal framework for enhanced labour cooperation, and to organizing the 10th session of the Vietnam-Hungary Joint Committee on Economic Cooperation in Hanoi at the earliest possible time.

Regarding regional and international issues of mutual concern, including the situation in the East Sea and Ukraine, both sides reaffirmed that disputes must be resolved peacefully, based on respect for the United Nations Charter and international law.

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