PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc welcomes Malaysian FM Anifah Aman at the Government Office
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The Government chief made the statement at his meeting with Malaysian FM Anifah Aman who is on two-day visit to Vietnam to co-chair the 5th Vietnam-Malaysia Joint Commission Meeting on Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation.
PM Phuc stressed that the two countries have maintained good political trust, hoping that both sides will coordinate in organizing various activities to mark the 45th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties in 2018.
He also asked the two sides to soon begin talks on and sign agreements on anti-human trafficking, extradition, and handing over persons sentenced to imprisonment while accelerating labor, tourism cooperation as well as people-to-people exchanges.
Welcoming Malaysia’s position on the East Sea issue, PM Phuc underlined the spirit of building the East Sea into a region of peace, friendship, freedom of navigation and aviation, of settling disputes through peaceful measures on the basis of international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
For his part, FM Anifah Aman affirmed Malaysian will work closely with Vietnam on the East Sea issue. He also confirmed Malaysia PM Najib Razak’s attendance at the APEC economic leaders’ meeting scheduled in Da Nang City in November.
