Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang and his Myanmar counterpart Thein Sein
have agreed the necessity of increasing exchanges of delegations at all levels
in a bid to strengthen their mutual understanding.
This agreement was reached during
talks which form part of Sang's first state visit to the country, at the
invitation of the Myanmar president.
Sang expressed his belief that
under Thein Sein's leadership, the country would achieve more results during
its construction and development process and successfully accomplish its
chairmanship role of Asean in 2014, and its hosting duties for the SEA Games
next year, contributing to raising the country's status in the region and the
world.
Thein Sein said he hoped Vietnam
would soon reach its goals set in the socio-economic development strategy
during 2011-20.
During their talks, the two sides
agreed that they should implement their bilateral co-operation mechanism and
regularly review signed agreements to remove all barriers and boost their
mutual cooperation.
The two leaders also acknowledged
their progress in national defence and security ties as they reviewed
agreements made last year and in 2004 about anti-criminal cooperation and
defence.
They agreed to soon establish
security dialogue at deputy-minister level between the Ministry of Public
Security of Vietnam and the Ministry of Home Affairs of Myanmar.
The two presidents also said the
two countries should raise their trade turnover to US$500 million in 2015.
Thein Sein promised to create
favourable conditions for Vietnam's investment projects in Myanmar.
The leaders also said they would
need to improve and extend their cooperation in a very wide variety of fields
such as agriculture, forestry, aqua-culture, telecommunications, petroleum,
mineral exploitation, transport, labour and culture, and sports and tourism.
They agreed to entrust their
relevant agencies to negotiate and sign agreements forming a legal base for
more cooperation.
Regarding regional and international
issues, the two presidents affirmed they would keep co-ordinating in
multilateral forums and support each other in international and regional
organisations.
President Sang said Vietnam would
always give support for and be willing to share its experiences with Myanmar so
the country would succeed in acting as a chair of Asean in 2014.
Regarding East Sea issue, the two
leaders agreed related parties should work towards peace, stability, security,
safety and freedom and settle disputes by peaceful measures, based on obeying
international laws, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea.
They also welcomed the Asean
Declaration on Six-Point Principles and the latest Joint Statement of the 15th
Asean-China Summit on the 10th anniversary of Declaration on the Conduct of
Parties on the East Sea (DOC).
They agreed to strictly implement
the DOC and build up a code of conduct in the East Sea.
On the same day, they witnessed
the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding about initiating
information exchange about the inspection activities of the State Bank of
Vietnam and the Central Bank of Myanmar , and an agreement on petroleum
cooperation between Vietnam Oil and Gas Group PetroVietnam and Myanmar's
Ministry of Energy.
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