Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong visits MyTel headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The freshly-ended visits to
Indonesia and Myanmar of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong marked a new
milestone and created a new momentum for reinforcing political trust and
boosting all-round cooperation between Vietnam and the two countries, said
Hoang Binh Quan, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External
Relations.
Quan said that the visits, following the July visit of
the Party leader to another ASEAN member of Cambodia, affirmed Vietnam’s external
policy of highly valuing neighbouring and regional countries as well as the
ASEAN, said Quan.
The Party chief’s visit to Indonesia was the first
made by a Party leader after the visit by late President Ho Chi Minh as a State
leader in 1959. It aimed to beef up the bilateral strategic partnership and political
trust, friendship and cooperation, marking new progress in the
Vietnam-Indonesia relations.
Meanwhile, the leader’s State visit to Myanmar aimed
to bring the bilateral ties to a new height. The two sides officially set up
their comprehensive cooperative partnership, noted Quan.
He said that the Party leader’s visits were successful
with all set targets completed.
During the two-day stay in Indonesia, he had 17
meetings and working sessions with Indonesian leaders, during which the two
sides reached common perspectives on major orientations to bolster bilateral
partnership.
They declared that Vietnam and Indonesia will continue
to be trustworthy friends with shared values and interest.
The Indonesian side stressed the country’s great
attention to developing ties with Vietnam, its only strategic partner in ASEAN.
The two sides signed six cooperation deals.
At
the same time, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Indonesian leaders
highlighted the significance of maintaining peace and stability in the region,
ensuring security, safety and freedom of navigation and aviation in the East
Sea, peacefully resolving disputes, and complying with international law,
including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982. They also stressed the
need to fully and effectively implement the Declaration on the Conduct of
Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and soon reach a Code of Conduct (COC) in the
East Sea.
In Myanmar, the Party chief held 21 meetings with local
leaders and officials. They pointed to abundant collaboration potential in
trade, investment, and human and natural resources.
The two countries issued a joint statement on the
establishment of comprehensive cooperative partnership, while inking four agreements.
The two sides also shared views on the East Sea issues.
Quan said that in his speech delivered at Indonesia’s
Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Party General Secretary Nguyen
Phu Trong emphasised that ASEAN is a successful organization with positive
contributions to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region
and the world, while stressing the grouping’s lessons on maintaining
independence, self-reliance, solidarity and unity, and his hope for
responsibility and contributions of all members to strengthening the
association’s solidarity.
He also affirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of giving
top priority to the ASEAN.-VNA