The State leader affirmed that Vietnam always attaches great importance to strengthening and developing its traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with Tajikistan. He proposed stepping up the exchange of delegations at all levels while bolstering collaboration in trade, investment, science and technology, education, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges to foster mutual understanding and friendship between the two nations.

President Rahmon expressed Tajikistan's high regard for and desire to strengthen comprehensive cooperative relations with Vietnam. He affirmed that Vietnam is an important partner in Southeast Asia, and Tajikistan wishes to expand cooperation with Vietnam as well as through Vietnam to expand cooperation with other countries in the region and ASEAN.

He highlighted potential areas for enhanced collaboration, including agriculture, railway connectivity, and infrastructure development.

The two leaders appreciated the positive development steps in bilateral cooperation, and said that the two sides still have a lot of untapped potential and room to promote comprehensive cooperation in all fields.

They concurred to promote cooperation and support for each other at multilateral forums, especially at the UN, while exchanging notes on several regional and international issues of mutual concerns.

On this occasion, President Cuong invited President Rahmon to visit Vietnam and attend the signing ceremony of the UN Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi in late October. President Rahmon thanked for the invitation and, in turn, invited President Cuong to pay an official visit to Tajikistan soon.

Vice President to attend 5th CICA Summit in Tajikistan

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh will attend the 5th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) to be held in Dushabe, the capital city of Tajikistan from June 14-15, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.