Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa stated yesterday that his
meeting with Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh had concluded on an
optimistic note that the US$5 billion trade target between the two countries
could be achieved ahead of the 2015 goal.
"The comprehensive
partnership between Indonesia and Vietnam has continued to strengthen and
become more strategic," Natalegawa said in Hanoi, Vietnam, via a ministry
statement made available to The Jakarta Post.
Bilateral trade between the two
countries jumped 53 per cent from its 2010 level to $4.7 billion in 2011,
according to the statement.
"Given available figures, we
are optimistic that the 2015 trade volume target can be reached earlier,"
Natalegawa said.
Natalegawa has been in Vietnam
since Wednesday to lead the Indonesian delegation in the first
Indonesia-Vietnam Joint Commission Assembly.
The assembly is aimed at
providing a regular and systematic mechanism to study and evaluate the
countries' bilateral cooperation in all sectors, including trade and
investment, agriculture, maritime, politics, as well as social and cultural
issues.
"The first meeting in Hanoi
marked a new era of Indonesia-Vietnam bilateral ties. With this forum, we will
be able to identify potential steps to strengthen cooperation," the
ministry's statement said.
The assembly is also a mandate
from the 2012-2015 Strategic Partnership Action Plan signed by the foreign
ministers of Indonesia and Vietnam in Jakarta on Sept. 14, 2011, on the
sidelines of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's state visit.
Also on Wednesday, Natalegawa met
with PM Dung and Vietnamese Communist Party secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong.
Trong plans to visit Indonesia in September.
Vietnam appreciated Natalegawa's
recent "shuttle diplomacy", which managed to establish common ground
among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in the
South China Sea issues.
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