NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (R) welcomes Australian PM Anthony Albanese in Hanoi on June 4 (Photo: VNA)The two leaders voiced their delight that Vietnam and Australia have built strategic trust and close cooperation in multiple spheres over the 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations.
They shared the belief that bilateral ties will be elevated to a newlevel soon.
Chairman Hue shared his guest’s view that there remains muchroom for the two countries to enhance cooperation, noting on the basis of freetrade agreements, including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-PacificPartnership (CPTPP), they can bolster trade and investment ties.
He suggested that aside from maintaining existing supply chains, the countries shouldcreate new ones to diversify their markets.
The Vietnamese parliament supports the two countries to strengthentrade and investment partnerships and hopes that more Australian investors willcome to operate in Vietnam, he remarked.
PM Albanese welcomed his host’s recommendations for the twosides to hold more workshops, meetings, and events to share experience inadapting to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and to increase exchanges toboost mutual understanding between the countries’ legislators and parliaments.
He said that in his position, he will help promotelocality-to-locality ties so that both sides can record even better results.
Albanese went on to say that RMIT University has announced thenext phase of its investment in education, research, and cooperation inVietnam, including a strategic investment fund worth 250 million AUD (165.5million USD).
Vietnam is the fifth biggest source of foreign students in Australia,which in turn is the second largest destination of Vietnamese students, henoted, adding that RMIT University is a role model of their education -training cooperation, and he hopes bilateral ties in this regard will grow morestrongly in the future.
Applauding the collaboration in education and training, the top legislator ofVietnam said during his official visit to Australia last December, universitiesof both countries signed 12 cooperation agreements. He also welcomed RMITUniversity’s expansion of investment and cooperation in Vietnam.
Besides, Hue highlighted the opening of the Vietnam - Australia Centreat the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, perceiving that it will help improveVietnamese officials’ capacity. He also thanked the Australian Government for sponsoringa training course on climate change and energy for Vietnamese NA deputies andcadres of the NA Office.
The Chairman took this occasion to thank and ask the Australian Government andPM to continue creating conditions for the Vietnamese community to integrateinto the local society, and contribute more to the country’s socio-economicdevelopment as well as bilateral relations.
Vietnam always attaches importance to and highly valuesAustralia’s role in the region and the world, he stressed, calling on Australiato keep advocating ASEAN and Vietnam’s stance on the East Sea issue.
Atthe meeting, PM Albanese also affirmed that he will promote the sending of anAustralian parliamentarians’ delegation to the ninth Global Conference of YoungParliamentarians, scheduled to take place in Hanoi this September./.
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