Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Dinh Quy (R) and Secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Preeti Saran (Source: VNA) NewDelhi (VNA) – The 10th political consultation and 7th strategic dialogue at the deputyforeign ministerial level between Vietnam and India took place in New Delhi onApril 9-10.
Under the co-chair of Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Dinh Quy and Secretary ofthe Indian Ministry of External Affairs Preeti Saran, the event reviewed the bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
They highlighted the fruitful development of the Vietnam-India ComprehensiveStrategic Partnership in many fields, especially politics, defence-security,and economy-trade.
The two sides agreed to continue regularly maintaining all-level delegationexchanges via the channels of the Party, Government, State and legislature, aswell as promoting people-to-people exchange.
The visits by Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang and Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc to India in early 2018 helped enhance political trust and open a newchapter in bilateral cooperation, they said.
Deputy FM Quy applauded India for successfully organising the ASEAN-India CommemorativeSummit.
The two sides pledged to effectively implement the Action Plan for the period of2017-2020, thus promoting the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in all areasof cooperation.
They agreed to foster collaboration in huge potential domains such as agriculture,health, oil and gas, renewable energy, education-training, culture-tourism,science-technology, and people-to-people exchange.
Preeti Saran expressed her joy at the strong growth of two-way trade in recenttime, and agreed to hold the 4th Meeting of the Joint Sub-Commission on Trade in 2018 inVietnam, which will set out measures to reach the 15-billion-USD trade goal by2020.
Quy suggested the Indian side restrict trade barriers to Vietnam’s exports.
While sharing Vietnam’s opinions on international and regional issues of commonconcern, Preeti Saran hailed the role played by Vietnam in coordinating withthe Indian side in organising the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit and the ASEAN-India Senior OfficialsMeeting.
With its role as the coordinator of ASEAN-India relations in 2015-2018, Vietnamis willing to serve as a bridge connecting India with other ASEAN member nationsand promote all-around cooperation between the country and the bloc, Quy said.
The two sides committed to closely coordinating and supporting each other in multilateralforums, especially the UN.
The Vietnamese official spoke highly of India’s stance on recent EastSea-related issues, assuring that Vietnam is ready to work with India and otherASEAN countries to promote maritime security cooperation in regional forums inthe coming time.
Both sides agreed to organise the next political consultation and strategicdialogue in Vietnam in 2019.
During his stay, Quy made a courtesy visit to Indian Minister of External AffairsSushma Swaraj, who asked the two countries’ foreign ministries to effectivelycoordinate in holding the 16th Joint Commission meetingat foreign minister level in Vietnam in 2018.-VNA
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