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PM
Phuc welcomed President Trump and his entourage on their visit to Vietnam and
lauded the significance of the second summit between the US and the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in promoting the denuclearisation and making
sustainable peace on the Korean Peninsula. He also applauded the US and the
DPRK’s choosing of Vietnam as the venue for their important summit.
The leader affirmed that Vietnam always attaches importance to the comprehensive
partnership with the US in its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance,
multilateralisation and diversification of foreign relations, and active
integration into the world in the principle of respecting each other’s
independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and political regimes.
President Trump expressed his delight at meeting PM Phuc and visiting Vietnam
again. He thanked Vietnam for its considerate support for the US-DPRK summit
despite the short period of time for preparation.
At the meeting, the two sides shared the view that bilateral relations have been
growing substantively in many fields, from politics-diplomacy, security-defence,
education-training, to the settlement of war consequences. Notably, bilateral
trade topped 60 billion USD in 2018 with the US’s exports to Vietnam surging by
46 percent, making the Southeast Asian nation one of the fastest growing markets
of the US.
To promote the economic-trade upward trend, they agreed to keep implementing
existing cooperation mechanisms like the Vietnam-US Bilateral Trade Agreement
and the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement.
The two sides will also continue discussing the possibility of upgrading the
framework of bilateral trade-investment ties to match the development of their
economic-trade relations and the nature of the comprehensive partnership, they
added.
President Trump highly valued Vietnam’s active settlement of some prioritised
trade issues, affirming his strong support for cooperation in this field for the
sake of the two peoples.
The leaders also exchanged views on some regional issues of shared concern. They
voiced their support for the peaceful settlement of disputes in the East Sea in
accordance with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea, the respect for all diplomatic and legal processes, the
effective and full implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties
in the East Sea, and the early signing of a Code of Conduct in the waters.
Source: VNA
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