The agreement was reached on Nov. 13 by Hoang Binh Quan, Head of theCPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations andJean-Charles Negre, member of the coordinating committee for the PCF,during the former’s working visit to France.
Quan briefed the French communists on the CPV’s preparations for its XIth national congress, supplements to and development of its 1991Platform, as well as Vietnam ’s socio-economic development orientationsand strategies for the 2011-2020 period.
The French communists praised Vietnam ’s socialist-oriented economicdevelopment model and the special traditional relations between the twoparties.
During their talks, the Vietnamese and French communists shared theview that the current global economic crisis offers a chance forresearchers and theorists to devise appropriate new politicalstrategies, especially as the French side is designing a new politicalplan.
Earlier on November 12, Vietnamese officials visited the headquartersof the Socialist Party of France (PS) and met with Jean-ChristopheCambadelis, Secretary of the PS Central Committee in charge of externalaffairs.
The Vietnamese communists and PS members discussed international issuesof mutual concern, the development of the left-wing movement in theworld as well as measures to elevate the relationship between the CPVand the PS./.