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| Party General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm (left) had official talks with Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on May 29. — VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất |
SINGAPORE — General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee and President of Việt Nam Tô Lâm held talks with Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Friday, agreeing to promote science–expertise and innovation as a pillar of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
The talks adopted a state-level welcome ceremony held with the very best protocol accorded to a head of state on the headquarters of Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
President Shanmugaratnam welcomed General Secretary and President Lâm, his partner, and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation on their state go to to Singapore, and congratulated the Vietnamese chief on his election as State President by the sixteenth National Assembly.
Recalling his visitor’s official go to to Singapore in March 2025 within the capability as Party General Secretary and the extremely productive conferences and talks between the 2 sides at the moment, the host expressed his perception that this time’s go to within the new capability will provide deeper discussions and exchanges, thereby additional advancing bilateral relations in a extra profound and substantive method.
Highly valuing and expressing admiration for Việt Nam’s quick improvement, the Singaporean chief voiced his confidence that below the management of the CPV, headed by General Secretary and President Lâm, Việt Nam will proceed growing dynamically and additional improve its worldwide standing.
Amid advanced and unpredictable international developments, he careworn that he and different Singaporean leaders are wanting ahead to the Vietnamese Party and State chief’s keynote deal with on the Shangri-La Dialogue on the night of May 29 to acquire additional insights into Vietnam’s imaginative and prescient on the area and the world.
General Secretary and President Lâm careworn that his go to reaffirms Việt Nam’s constant excessive precedence given to relations with Singapore and its willpower to construct a mannequin partnership for the brand new period.
He congratulated Singapore on its improvement achievements lately, affirming that town state’s successes, particularly amid present international uncertainties, mirror its proactiveness, confidence and imaginative and prescient.
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| Party General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm (left) had talks with Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on May 29. — VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất |
During the talks, the 2 leaders confirmed their satisfaction with the sound and complete improvement of bilateral ties because the elevation of relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in March 2025. Political belief has deepened, financial cooperation has turn into nearer, and people-to-people exchanges extra strong. The two international locations are additionally increasing cooperation to key areas such as digital transformation, science and expertise, clear vitality, carbon credit score alternate, cybersecurity, rising applied sciences, and monetary centres.
They emphasised the vital function of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and famous that there stays vital room for cooperation to promote ASEAN connectivity and collaboration initiatives within the coming interval.
The two sides additionally exchanged views on instructions for future cooperation and agreed to additional deepen political belief. They extremely valued the more and more substantive cooperation between the 2 ruling events, which serves as a basis for strategic connectivity and long-term cooperation between the 2 international locations.
Both host and visitor agreed to create new breakthroughs in financial ties to guarantee larger depth, high quality and effectivity, promote high-quality bilateral funding flows centered on strategic and excessive value-added sectors, and strengthen enterprise connectivity.
Việt Nam spoke extremely of the ASEAN Power Grid initiative and pledged to contribute responsibly to its implementation as it recognised the important significance of vitality to improvement, notably in science and expertise.
President Shanmugaratnam agreed with General Secretary and President Lâm on selling science – expertise and innovation as a pillar of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, together with via accelerating the implementation of the “State – Business – Researcher” connectivity mannequin to higher hyperlink analysis with sensible software.
The two sides additionally agreed to additional deepen defence–safety cooperation commensurate with the stature of bilateral ties and the excessive stage of political belief whereas increasing ties to new areas. Both underscored the significance of strengthening the social basis of bilateral relations via cultural cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.
The leaders reaffirmed their dedication to enhancing efficient coordination and mutual assist at multilateral boards, supporting multilateralism, and enhancing the function of the United Nations in addressing international safety and improvement challenges. They pledged to reinforce ASEAN centrality, notably as Singapore assumes the ASEAN Chairmanship in 2027 and Việt Nam hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) discussion board in 2027.
They additionally careworn the significance of selling negotiations towards an efficient, substantive and environment friendly Code of Conduct within the East Sea (COC).
The leaders agreed to direct ministries and businesses of each international locations to actively implement the agreements reached, thereby ushering the Vietnam – Singapore Comprehensive Strategic Partnership into a brand new section of higher-quality improvement.
On this event, General Secretary and President Lâm invited President Shanmugaratnam and his partner to go to Việt Nam. The Singaporean chief gladly accepted the invitation. — VNA/VNS