Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung
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The foreign deputy ministers suggested enacting necessary measures to boost two-way trade in a stable, balanced, and sustainable manner, while accelerating the progress and ensuring quality of projects on infrastructure, industrial parks and factories undertaken by Chinese firms. They also agreed to implement effectively China ’s loans and non-refundable aid for Vietnam , and step up win-win cooperation between Vietnamese and Chinese localities.
Deputy FM Le Hoai Trung thanked China for increasing the release of water to the downstream of the Mekong River to address drought and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta. He proposed the two sides continue long-term collaboration in the sustainable use and management of water resources in the Mekong River .
The two diplomats agreed to promote the role of the Vietnam-China Land Border Joint Committee in soon reviewing the five-year implementation of documents on land border management, as well as maintaining stability, cooperation and development in the two countries’ shared border lines. They candidly exchanged maritime issues and concurred to pushing ahead with the current negotiation mechanisms to carry out joint projects.
Deputy FM Trung expressed Vietnam’s deep concern over tension and consequences of recent complicated developments in the East Sea. He reiterated the need to strictly follow agreements and common perceptions reached by leaders of the two countries’ Parties and States, especially the agreement on basic principles guiding the settlement of issues at sea.
Vietnam and China should promote friendship and mutual cooperation to bring practical benefits to their people. Deputy FM Trung affirmed that growing political trust, continuing development in all fields, and similarities in political regime and social policy between the two countries are solid foundations for their ties to further develop. After the Vietnam-China land border delimitation treaty was signed in 1999, friendship and peace on the land borders shared between the two countries were enhanced, facilitating trade and cultural exchanges.
