Government leader meets US President, Canadian PM in Phnom Penh

Meeting with US President Joe Biden, both leaders expressed their appreciation for, give high priority to the Vietnam - US comprehensive partnership and promote dialogues at all levels, especially high-level ones, via flexible forms.

In the short term, the two countries will coordinate to properly prepare for the coming phone talks between General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and President Biden, and work to arrange high-level mutual visits at suitable points of time when possible.

President Biden suggested both countries step up bilateral cooperation and capitalise on the untapped potential to develop the ties intensively and effectively, especially in the fields of mutual interests, thereby actively contributing to regional and global peace, stability, cooperation, and development.

On this occasion, PM Chinh conveyed Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s invitations to President Biden to visit Vietnam. The US leader accepted the invitation with pleasure and promised to make a visit at an appropriate time.

During his meeting with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau the same day, the two leaders expressed their satisfaction with the strong development of the Vietnam-Canada Comprehensive Partnership, affirming their hope to tighten ASEAN-Canada ties.

Towards the 50th founding anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic relations in 2023, the two PMs consented to promote high-level visits to reach a consensus on orientations for developing the Vietnam-Canada relations in a deep, effective and practical manner.

Besides cooperation in economy - trade - investment and education - training, they reached a consensus on ramping up collaboration in responding to climate change, promoting gender equality, and handling global challenges such as food security, energy security, and cyber security.

The Vietnamese cabinet leader asked Canada support Vietnam in the fields of energy, digital transformation and green transformation, share experience in technology, governance, institution improvement and especially high-quality human resource training.

He said he welcomes Canadian businesses to invest in Vietnam and suggested Canada further open its market for Vietnamese goods, especially agricultural and aquatic products, and grant more scholarships to Vietnamese students.

The PM also urged the Canadian Government create favourable conditions for more than 240,000 Vietnamese people living, working and studying in the nation.

Agreeing with PM Chinh’s proposals, PM Trudeau said that the Indo-Pacific Strategy that Canada is about to announce will cover numerous fields of common interests of the two countries such as innovation, green and clean technologies, digital technology, human resource development.

He voiced his hope that the strategy will open up plenty of new opportunities to further augment cooperation between Canada and ASEAN in general and Vietnam in particular.

On this occasion, PM Chinh invited his Canadian counterpart to soon visit Vietnam again. The latter graciously accepted the invitation and said he will arrange the visit at an appropriate time.