Hanoi(VNA) – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong wants Vietnam and the Republicof Korea (RoK) to ratchet up the efficient cooperation between politicalparties, governments, parliaments, and localities to achieve more productivestrategic cooperative partnership.

He expressed his desire at a reception for visiting Speaker of the NationalAssembly of the RoK Chung Sye-kyun in Hanoi on April 25.

The Party chief warmly welcomed Speaker Chung’s visit at a time when the twocountries are enjoying thriving relations and preparing for the celebration ofthe 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties, and hoped it will help stepup the affiliation between the two law-making bodies.

He gave high estimations to the outcomes of the guest’s talks and meetings duringthe visit and across-the-board cooperation, in particular economics, trade andinvestment.

He noted that similarinterests, cultural closeness, people’s bonds, and firmly-built social foundationallow the two countries to have huge cooperation potential.

Speaker Chungregarded the robust, healthy and efficient development of bilateral ties overthe past 25 years as rare in international relations, saying it stemmed fromleaders’ visions and concerted efforts made the two people. 

He spoke highly of Vietnam’s efforts to create favourable conditions for RoKinvestors and pledged that his country will speed up the transfer of technologyto partly support Vietnam’s industrialization and modernization.

He expressed hiswish and belief that the countries’ relations will continue thriving qualitativelyand quantitatively in the coming time.

Earlier on the day, Speaker Chung held talks with National Assembly ChairwomanNguyen Thi Kim Ngan and met with President Tran Dai Quang.

He is in a three-day official visit at the invitation of his Vietnamesecounterpart Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, starting from April 24.  -VNA