General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam (R) and President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Lee Jae Myung on the press briefing (Photo: VNA)
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam and President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Lee Jae Myung met the press in Hanoi on April 22, proper after witnessing the change of cooperation agreements.
General Secretary and State President Lam mentioned the RoK President’s state go to carries significance, going down when bilateral ties are rising and the 2 nations are rising as trusted companions with strategic-level cooperation and shut mutual understanding.
Both sides held efficient and substantive talks, protecting home developments, bilateral ties, in addition to world and regional points, and agreed on main orientations to elevate Vietnam – RoK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to a brand new peak.
According to the host, they agreed to bolster political belief and strategic cooperation to a brand new degree on the talks, whereas making higher use of present mechanisms and agreements. Both sides will develop substantive collaboration in key areas, together with diplomacy, nationwide defence, and safety, in addition to coordinate in addressing non-traditional safety points, and transnational crime.
The two sides underscored a strategic imaginative and prescient on financial connectivity in the brand new context, committing to facilitating commerce and increasing market entry for one another’s items, with the purpose of lifting bilateral commerce to 150 billion USD by 2030. They additionally pledged to help Vietnamese corporations in becoming a member of Korean manufacturing and distribution provide chains, contributing to Vietnam’s push for an unbiased, self-reliant and resilient financial system.
Vietnam welcomes new funding and growth from Korean firms in precedence sectors, together with sensible city infrastructure, semiconductors, large-scale AI information centres, nuclear energy, and next-generation sensible port improvement, he mentioned, including that the Vietnamese Government will maintain enhancing the funding local weather, making it extra clear and business-friendly, whereas guaranteeing all attainable assist for overseas buyers, together with Korean corporations, to do long-term enterprise in Vietnam.
He knowledgeable the press that either side had agreed to proceed successfully deploying financing from financial cooperation promotion and improvement funds, specializing in strategic infrastructure in transport, vitality, digital programs and local weather resilience.
They reaffirmed their dedication to raise cooperation in sci-tech, innovation and digital transformation into core pillars of bilateral relationship and key drivers of every nation’s improvement targets.
The host chief proposed that the 2 sides discover the institution of a Vietnam–RoK synthetic intelligence cooperation framework, aimed toward increasing AI analysis and utility primarily based on shared computing infrastructure. He additionally known as for stronger collaboration in analysis and expertise switch, significantly in areas of the RoK’s energy and Vietnam’s urgent demand, together with semiconductors, electronics and biotechnology. The RoK will proceed supporting the early launch of the second part of the Vietnam–Korea Institute of Science and Technology venture.
The two nations will additional develop joint work in tradition, schooling and people-to-people exchanges, laying a stable basis for long-term, sustainable ties, he mentioned, including that the RoK pledged to create optimum circumstances for the Vietnamese neighborhood to reside, research and work stably in the nation.
Vietnam additionally urged stronger collaboration in workforce upskilling, together with assist for digital transformation and the appliance of data expertise in schooling. At the identical time, either side will step up cooperation and knowledge-sharing in growing cultural and leisure industries globally, significantly in movie, music and different cultural sectors.
They agreed to work carefully and assist one another at world and regional boards, whereas persevering with to successfully launch cooperation throughout the ASEAN–RoK and Mekong–RoK frameworks to advance safety, financial stability and improvement.
The RoK additionally expressed readiness to share expertise to assist Vietnam efficiently host the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week 2027.
Both sides reaffirmed the significance of sustaining peace, stability, security and freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea, and agreed on the necessity to promote lasting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
On this event, the 2 sides signed a variety of cooperation agreements throughout varied fields, together with financial system, safety, science and expertise, tradition, healthcare, agriculture, and the atmosphere.
General Secretary and President To Lam expressed confidence that with sturdy political dedication from the senior management of each nations and the assist of their folks, the Vietnam–RoK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership will proceed to develop extra robustly, benefiting each nations and contributing positively to peace, stability, cooperation, and improvement in the area and the world.
Expressing his pleasure at witnessing Vietnam’s dynamic improvement, President Lee emphasised that Vietnam is the RoK’s third-largest buying and selling and funding accomplice, whereas the RoK is the biggest investor in Vietnam. The two sides are selling complete cooperation throughout all areas, from transport, vitality, and infrastructure to future industries reminiscent of science and expertise, mental property, and the inventive industries.
The RoK President said that each nations have agreed to advance commerce and funding cooperation towards attaining a bilateral commerce goal of 150 billion USD by 2030. For the primary time, the 2 sides consented to commerce calmly processed poultry merchandise primarily based on the Memorandum of Understanding on animal quarantine signed on this event, shifting towards broader cooperation in agricultural and poultry-livestock commerce.
Building on their enduring belief, the 2 sides agreed to strengthen strategic cooperation in vitality and infrastructure, keep shut coordination, and collectively develop mannequin cooperation initiatives via new city space and airport initiatives presently being applied in Vietnam.
They additionally concurred on additional increasing cooperation in future-oriented fields reminiscent of science, expertise, local weather change, and the atmosphere, in addition to tradition and schooling; and supporting Vietnam’s science and expertise improvement technique. The RoK facet affirmed that it’s going to make energetic contributions to this effort.
Based on the grasp plan framework for cooperation in science, expertise, and innovation, the 2 nations agreed to reinforce collaboration in joint analysis and human useful resource improvement in areas like semiconductors, synthetic intelligence, and biotechnology.
The two sides additionally agreed to work carefully to enhance the rights and advantages of their residents. The RoK will proceed efforts to reinforce the rights and welfare of Vietnamese employees and marriage migrants residing in the nation.
The two leaders additionally exchanged in-depth views on measures to advertise peace and stability in the area, agreeing to keep up shut coordination and additional strengthen cooperation at worldwide boards such because the United Nations. The RoK Government will constantly and successfully implement cooperation measures and try to raise the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the 2 nations to a brand new peak.
VNA