Hanoi (VNA) – Leaders of foreigncountries have extended their congratulations to the Vietnamese Party and Stateleaders on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day(September 2, 1945).
China’s Party General Secretary and President XiJinping cabled a congratulatory message to General Secretary of the CommunistParty of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and President Nguyen Phu Trong whileChinese Premier Li Keqiang and Chairman of the Standing Committee of theChinese National People's Congress Li Zhanshu extended congratulations toVietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Chairwoman of the NationalAssembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, respectively.
In their messages, the Chinese leaders affirmed that China attaches greatimportance to developing relations with Vietnam, and is willing to join Vietnamin strengthening the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperativepartnership in a stable and sustainable manner, towards celebrating 70 years ofbilateral diplomatic ties in 2020.
General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and PresidentBounnhang Vorachith, Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and Chairwoman of theLao National Assembly Pany Yathotou extended their congratulations to PartyGeneral Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc and Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, respectively.
The Lao leaders affirmed that regardless of thecomplicated developments in the regional and international situations, thegreat friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the Vietnameseand Lao Parties, States and peoples have always been maintained and nurtured,becoming invaluable common assets of the two countries.
They expressed their deep gratitude to theVietnamese Party, State and people for their valuable, timely and effectivesupport to the Lao revolutionary cause, and affirmed that the Party, State andpeople of Laos will continue joining Vietnam in maintaining, nurturing anddeveloping the Vietnam-Laos special relationship.
Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, Cambodian PrimeMinister Techo Hun Sen and Acting President of the Senate of Cambodia Sim Kasent respective congratulatory letters to Party General Secretary and PresidentNguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Chairwoman of theNational Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. The Cambodian People’s Party CentralCommittee also cabled a message of congratulations to the CPV CentralCommittee.
In their messages, the Cambodian leaders spoke highly of the solidarity,traditional friendship and comprehensive, sustainable and long-term cooperationbetween the two countries, affirming their determination to continuously fosterthe bilateral relations.
They also expressed their belief that theVietnam-Cambodia ties will continue to be enhanced and deepened for the commoninterests of the two countries as well as for peace, cooperation and prosperityin the region.
President of the Council of State and Council ofMinisters of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez sent his congratulations to PartyGeneral Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc. Meanwhile, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba CentralCommittee Raul Castro cabled a congratulatory message to Party GeneralSecretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong.
In their messages, the Cuban leaders extended best wishes to the seniorVietnamese leaders, expressing their belief that Cuba and Vietnam will continueto solidify the historic brotherly relations and cooperation. They affirmedtheir wish to tighten ties and solidarity between the two nations, Parties and Governments.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and PrimeMinister Dmitry Medvedev extended congratulations to Party General Secretaryand President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc,respectively. Meanwhile, President of the Russian Federation Council ValentinaMatvienko and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Viaсheslav Volodin sentcongratulatory messages to Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi KimNgan.
The Russian leaders highly appreciated the traditional friendship and thecomprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia, which aregrowing extensively across all fields, especially the economy, trade andinvestment with many big projects on energy, industry and infrastructure.
They said they believe that the activitieswithin the framework of the Vietnam Year in Russia and Russia Year in Vietnamin 2019 and 2020 will create a new impulse for the acceleration of bilateraland multilateral cooperation for the benefit of the two peoples.
Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob sentcongratulations to Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong,while Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong extended congratulations toPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
The Singaporean leaders said they were glad thatVietnam and Singapore have built bilateral strategic partnership with firmfoundation of close political relations, people-to-people exchange, andeffective economic cooperation.
They affirmed to support and closely work withVietnam as the country holds the position of ASEAN Chair in 2020 andnon-permanent membership of the UN Security Council for 2020-2021.
In his congratulatory message sent to PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha affirmedhis determination to strengthen coordination with Vietnam to further deepen therelations between the two countries for the sake of their peoples and commonbenefits of the whole region.
On the occasion, Myanmar President U WinMyint cabled a congratulatory message to Party General Secretary andPresident Nguyen Phu Trong, while Myanmar State Counsellor Aung SanSuu Kyi sent congratulations to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, andMyanmar Vice Presidents U Myint Swe and Henry Van Thio sent letters ofcongratulations to Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh.
The Myanmar leaders highly appreciated thereinforcement of the friendship and comprehensive cooperative partnershipbetween Vietnam and Myanmar over the past time, and expressed their belief thatthe bilateral relations will continue thriving in the coming years for thecommon interests of the two peoples as well as peace, stability in the region,and solidarity and unity in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Also on this occasion, Deputy Prime Minister andForeign Minister Pham Binh Minh received congratulations from Chinese StateCouncilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Cambodia’s Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and InternationalCooperation Prak Sokhonn, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno RodriguezParrilla, Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand’sForeign Minister Don Pramudwinai, and Myanmar’s Minister of InternationalCooperation U Kyaw Tin.-VNA