Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) meets with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau. (Photo: VNA)In their first face-to-face meeting, the two leadersexpressed their satisfaction with the strong development of the Vietnam-Canada ComprehensivePartnership, affirming their hope to tighten ASEAN-Canada relations.
Towards the 50th founding anniversary of the bilateraldiplomatic relations in 2023, the two PMs agreed to promote high-level visitsto reach consensus on the orientations for developing the Vietnam-Canada relations in a deep,effective and practical manner.
Besides cooperation in economy - trade - investment andeducation - training, they reached consensus on boosting collaboration in respondingto climate change, promoting gender equality, and handling global challengessuch as food security, energy security, and cyber security.
PM Chinh proposed Canada support Vietnam in the fields ofenergy, digital transformation and green transformation, share experience intechnology, governance, institution improvement and especially high-qualityhuman resource training.
He affirmed to welcome Canadian businesses to investin Vietnam and proposed Canada further open its market forVietnamese goods, especially agricultural and aquatic products, and grant morescholarships to Vietnamese students. The PM also suggested the Canadian Government create favourable conditions for more than 240,000 Vietnamese people living, workingand studying in the nation.
Agreeing with PM Chinh’s proposals, PM Trudeau said thatthe Indo-Pacific Strategy that Canada is about to announce will cover manyareas of common interests of the two countries such as innovation, green and cleantechnologies, digital technology, human resource development.
He showed his hope that the strategy will open up many newopportunities to further strengthen cooperation between Canada and ASEAN ingeneral and Vietnam in particular.
On this occasion, PMChinh invited his Canadian counterpart to soon visit Vietnam again. The latter accepted the invitation with pleasure and said he will arrange the visit at an appropriate time./.
VNA
