Vietnam, Bulgaria bolster parliamentary cooperation, materialize strategic partnership

The meeting was attended by Group President Rositsa Kirova, vice presidents, and members of the Group who are lawmakers from various specialized committees of the Bulgarian National Assembly.

Ambassador Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet highly appreciated the establishment of the Bulgaria-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group by the 52nd National Assembly of Bulgaria with the participation of deputies from various political forces, viewing it as a vivid manifestation of friendship and broad support for relations with Vietnam within the Bulgarian National Assembly.

The Ambassador emphasized that the establishment of the Strategic Partnership between the two countries during the official visit to Bulgaria by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam in October 2025 opened a new phase of development in bilateral ties. After more than 70 years of building trust and friendship, the priority now is to implement this new framework through concrete results that bring practical benefits to the people and businesses of both nations.

She proposed increasing exchanges between the legislative bodies, the two friendship groups, and specialized committees, while boosting cooperation in areas with substantial potential such as economics, trade, investment, science and technology, education and training, tourism, labor, culture, and people-to-people exchanges.

In discussions with the Ambassador, Group President Rositsa Kirova and Bulgarian lawmakers praised the traditional friendship and development achievements of Vietnam. Several lawmakers who had previously visited Vietnam shared their impressions of the country's rapid development, economic dynamism, and cultural and tourism diversity.

According to Rositsa Kirova, Vietnam and Bulgaria share a special relationship nurtured not only through state-to-state relations but also by generations of people from both countries. In the current phase, both sides need to infuse this longstanding friendship with new content through areas of cooperation in line to each country's development needs.

Bulgarian lawmakers stated that strong political relations should be more clearly reflected in economic, trade, and investment cooperation. Both sides still have ample room to expand relations between businesses and localities, with Group President Rositsa Kirova proposing to promote further twinning relations between cities and localities in Vietnam and Bulgaria.

Education and tourism also attracted the attention of lawmakers. Generations of Vietnamese who studied and were trained in Bulgaria created a special foundation for bilateral relations. Lawmakers argued that this foundation must be sustained by intensifying exchanges between educational institutions, students, and youth, while promoting destination marketing, tourist exchanges, and people-to-people ties.

Group members also expressed interest in labor cooperation given Bulgaria's demand for human resources in certain sectors, while highly appreciating the diligence of Vietnamese workers and suggesting that the two countries continue exploring and stepping up cooperation in this field based on the needs and regulations of each side.

Bulgarian lawmakers emphasized that Vietnam-Bulgaria relations possess a foundation of friendship built over decades and enjoy broad consensus across political divides, serving as a favorable basis for the two countries to expand cooperation in the new phase.

The two sides agreed to maintain regular exchanges and uphold the bridge-building role of the two Friendship Groups and the Embassy in promoting areas of mutual interest. Through this, parliamentary cooperation is expected to help turn the longstanding friendship and political trust between Vietnam and Bulgaria into concrete cooperative outcomes in the strategic partnership phase.

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