Prime Minister Chinh said the Vietnamese people always appreciate the sentiments, and valuable support and wholehearted help of the Czech people for Vietnam in the past struggle for national independence and reunification as well as in the current process of national construction and development. He proposed the association to continue supporting and promoting the Vietnam-Czech relationship to make it more profound, substantive and effective. Kusy said he believed that Prime Minister Chinh's visit to the Czech Republic this time will open a new phase in the relationship between the two countries. He affirmed that the Czech - Vietnam Friendship Association will do its best to stand side by side with Vietnam in the process of developing and cultivating relations between the two countries./.