President Vo Van Thuong speaks at the banquet. (Photo: VNA)In his remarks, Thuong expressed his belief that withmutual trust, understanding and respect, and the new momentum establishedduring Biden’s Vietnam visit, the Vietnam-US Comprehensive StrategicPartnership for peace, cooperation and sustainable development will growstrongly and substantively, bringing practical interests to people of the twocountries, and significantly contributing to peace, friendship, cooperation andsustainable development in the region and the world.
The Vietnam-US relationship is at its best ever, hesaid, calling it a model in the history of international relations in healingand building relations after the war, Thuong affirmed.
President Thuong attributed the results to joint effortsin sailing through challenges and ups and downs of the history by generations of leaders, and people of the two countries.
Over the past nearly 50 years, the two sides havewitnessed many important events, and the strongest-ever developments, withoutstanding achievements in such cooperation areas economy-trade-investment,education-training, dialogue mechanisms, and coordination in many matters and fields,Thuong noted.
He highlighted noted results in settling warconsequences like dioxin remediation projects, US support to people withdisabilities, and Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims of the second and thirdgenerations, and in the clearance of bombs, mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO)left over from the war.
Most recently, the two sides have cooperated in examiningsamples of unidentified Vietnamese martyrs' remains, he continued.
He thanked generations of US authorities and people,especially President Joe Biden and his wife, for their active support toVietnam in this humanitarian field.
Thuong used this occasion to thank agencies, organisationsand individuals of the two countries, over many generations, for theircontinuous efforts to nurture and develop the Vietnam - US relationship,including late Senator John McCain, Special Envoy John Kerry, and formerSenator Patrick Leahy, long-standing friends of Vietnam.
“We will continue these efforts together, preserving,consolidating and developing the Vietnam-US relationship better andfurther," said Thuong.
For his part, Biden spoke highly of theefforts in utilising potential of the future between the two countries, stressing they are greatopportunities for the prosperity of two peoples.
US President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. speaks at the banquet. (Photo: VNA)This is a testament to the long way the two countrieshave come, but more importantly, how far they will continue to go in the future,he said.
Vietnamese and US leaders at the banquet. (Photo: VNA)VNA
