Vietnam, Greece agree to take relations to a new height
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou takes a photo with President Nguyen Xuan Phuc before their talks on May 16 – Photo: VNA
During the press conference, the two leaders announced the main results of the talks.
State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou emphasized that the two sides agreed to work closely together to bring Vietnam-Greece relations to a new height and deepen cooperation in all fields. .
Greece and Vietnam will promote the complementary strengths between the two countries, pay attention to promoting economic cooperation, and at the same time cooperate closely, making positive contributions to peace, stability, cooperation and cooperation. regionally and globally.
Earlier, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during talks after a welcome ceremony on the morning of May 16 at the Presidential Palace, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc welcomed and highly appreciated the visit to Vietnam by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou. believes that the visit will contribute to deepening the good friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
On this occasion, State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc would like to thank Greece for its valuable help in providing vaccine aid to Vietnam to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
The President also highly appreciated Greece’s early ratification of the Vietnam-EU Investment Agreement (EVIPA) and suggested Greece support and promote the EU to remove the IUU yellow card for Vietnamese seafood.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou highly appreciated the important achievements in all aspects that Vietnam has achieved in the past career of fighting for independence as well as today’s socio-economic development.
She affirmed that Greece attaches great importance to Vietnam’s increasingly important role in the region and in the world, and wishes to strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in all fields.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the leaders discussed and agreed on measures to promote cooperation between the two countries and agreed to increase contact and exchange delegations at all levels, not only at high level but also at high level. Ministries, branches, localities and enterprises of the two countries.
State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and President Katerina Sakellaropoulou agreed to make joint efforts to promote economic relations that are beneficial to both sides, to encourage and create conditions for the business communities of the two countries to increase business contacts and exchange. experience and connect partners.
This cooperation will focus on a number of areas that Vietnam has needs and Greece can be strong such as shipbuilding, ship repair, providing shipping services, energy, agriculture…
In order to create a framework for the two countries’ economic cooperation in the coming time, the two sides agreed to promote negotiations to finalize the legal framework of the Agreement on Avoiding Double Taxation and the Agreement on Maritime Transport.
The two leaders also agreed to step up cooperation in other bilateral fields such as cooperation in defense, security, culture, education, sports, tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and President Katerina Sakellaropoulo also exchange on international and regional issues of mutual concern, including maintaining peace, stability, ensuring security, safety and freedom of navigation in areas on the basis of law observance. international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982.
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