Guangdong Import and Export fair held in Vietnam in August 2019 (Photo: VNA)Beijing (VNA) – The Vietnam - China relations have developedstably in the past year, with regular exchanges of delegations at all levels,effective collaborative mechanisms, and flourishing cooperation in varioussectors, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai recently told Chinesepress.
The diplomat said that China has been the largest trade partner of Vietnamsince 2004, adding trade revenue between the two nations was on strong surgeduring January – November.
China has been the second biggest FDI investor in Vietnam while the latter hasbeen the largest trade partner of the Northeast Asian country in the ASEAN blocsince 2016. Both sides have reached several agreements on quarantine of milk anddairy products and mangosteen.
Particularly, Vietnam successfully exported its first batch of milk to Chinathis year, he stressed.
Touching on territorial and border issues, the Vietnamese diplomat highlightedjoint efforts of both sides, saying their borderline has been kept the peacefuland stable for mutual development and cooperation.
Exchanges and cooperation between localities in border areas have borne fruitin recent time.
High-level leaders of the two Parties and States have met and reached mutualunderstanding on the necessity to control divergences, have proper measures tohandle maritime issues, have no actions that complicate the East Sea situation,and settle disputes via peaceful means in line with international law,including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNLCOS 1982), he said.
At the event, Ambassador Mai also shared several cooperative roadmaps betweenthe two countries in 2020 such as deepening mutual political trust on theoccasion of the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations,developing the economic-trade relations in a more practical manner, andenhancing people-to-people exchanges, mutual understanding and friendshipbetween the two peoples./.
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