Government chief meets Philippine and Bangladeshi Presidents

At the meeting with Philippine Marcos Jr, PM Chinh conveyed regards from Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, State President Vo Van Thuong, and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue to the Philippine leader.

The Philippine President expressed his elation at visiting Vietnam and meet with Vietnamese leaders at an early date with a view to boosting bilateral ties.

Both rejoiced at the strong development of the relationship across a multitude of areas, underlining the importance of the joint strategic partnership in regional peace, stability, co-operation, and development. 

The two sides therefore agreed to continue their collaboration and mutual support in regional and international issues of shared concern.

They concurred to promote the connectivity and reciprocity of the two economies, whilst paying closer attention to linkages in potential areas such as aquaculture, and oil and gas, whilst also considering expanding collaboration in new areas like the digital economy, the circular economy, the green economy, and innovation.

The leaders affirmed their support for stronger co-operation in personnel training and labour to support the knowledge-based economy of the two countries, whilst pledging to soon exchange and sign an inter-government agreement on rice trade to help both countries ensure food security amid complexities of the global supply chain over the past time. They also compared notes on co-operation and co-ordination in maritime issues.

The Philippine leader pledged further humanitarian treatment to detained fishermen in the spirit of friendship and strategic partnership, and support for Vietnamese efforts to have the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” warning on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing lifted.

At the meeting with Bangladeshi President Shahabuddin, PM Chinh congratulated the South Asian country on its recent achievements, including becoming the world’s second biggest apparel exporter, expressing great respect for its efforts to green this industry.

The two leaders emphasised their countries’ traditional friendship and political trust which has been nurtured by many generations of Vietnamese and Bangladeshi leaders and people. Based on that foundation and following 50 years of diplomatic ties, the bilateral relations has been growing strongly.

They therefore consented to intensifying high-level delegation exchanges between the two countries’ Parties, Governments, parliaments, and people, as well as co-ordinating to prepare for the upcoming visit to Bangladesh by Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue.

PM Chinh and President Shahabuddin said the two countries will continue sharing experience in socio-economic development, foreign investment attraction, and application of green production, especially in the textile - garment and leather footwear industries.

Both sides will actively incentivise firms to partner with each other and increase investment, whilst also discussing the opening of more direct air routes, providing favourable visa conditions to fuel people-to-people exchanges and tourism ties, and enhancing collaboration in agriculture, fishery, transport, education - training, disaster management, and climate change response, they added.

The Bangladeshi President hailed the impressive development made in trade and investment partnerships, including the four-fold surge in bilateral trade over the past decade.

He encouraged Vietnamese firms to invest in Bangladesh and pledged to create conditions for the country to increase the export of its strong products to Bangladesh. He also vowed close co-ordination to guarantee food security and effectively implement the MoU on rice trading for the 2022 to 2027 period.

The two leaders affirmed that their countries will continue their active co-operation and mutual support at regional and international forums, especially the UN, and contribute to peace, stability, collaboration and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.