The 7th Conference on ASEAN-China People-to-People Friendship
Organizations opened in Hanoi on August 16, with the participation of
high-ranking Vietnamese officials and representatives from ASEAN member
countries' friendship associations with China.
Addressing the event, Vietnamese
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan stated that the forum is one of the
most effective and dynamic between ASEAN and the grouping’s partners.
Strengthening ASEAN-Chinese
relations is not only beneficial to peace and prosperity in Southeast Asia ,
also contributing to peace, stability and development of countries in the
region, he noted.
According to Nhan, since its
membership in 1995, Vietnam has always been an active and responsible member of
the association and has been successful in the role of coordinator for the
ASEAN-China relationship during the 2009-2012 period.Vietnam will continue
working with other ASEAN countries and China to foster friendship and
cooperation between both sides in all fields.
Delivering a speech at the
two-day conference, themed "Solidarity, Friendship, Cooperation and
Development", President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations
(VUFO) and head of the Vietnamese delegation, Vu Xuan Hong, believed that the
forum was an excellent opportunity for participants to exchange experience and
strengthen bilateral or multilateral people to people friendships.
He stated that the Vietnam-China
Friendship Association and the Vietnam-ASEAN Friendship and Cooperation
Association will jointly organise more people to people exchanges, contributing
to build a strong, united and closely-connected ASEAN community.
Gu Xiulian, president of the
China-ASEAN Association, and head of the Chinese delegation to the conference,
stressed that in its external policies, China attaches importance to developing
relations with neighboring countries, including ASEAN nations.
In the new development stage, the
China-ASEAN Association will join hands with countries’ friendship
organisations in building a harmonious, peaceful and stable Asia for mutual
development, and raising the friendship and cooperation between China and ASEAN
to a new level, she said.
The first conference of
ASEAN-China People to People Friendship Organisations was held in Beijing in
May 2006.
VNA
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