Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the official welcoming ceremony for Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Báo Quốc Tế•28/08/2023
Nguyen Hong
10:19 | August 28, 2023
On the morning of August 28, at the Presidential Palace, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the official welcoming ceremony for Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
At the invitation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife paid an official visit to Vietnam from August 27-29.
Immediately after the official welcoming ceremony, the two Prime Ministers held talks to discuss issues of mutual concern and witnessed the signing of cooperation documents.
This is the fifth time Mr. Lee Hsien Loong has come to Vietnam as Prime Minister, showing the closeness and connection between the two countries Singapore and Vietnam.
The visit is part of a series of events organized by the two sides to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations and 10 years of Strategic Partnership between Vietnam and Singapore.
Most recently, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife paid an official visit to Singapore (February 8-10, 2023), with many substantive results.
The Vietnam-Singapore Strategic Partnership is developing well. Economic relations continue to develop well. In the first 6 months of 2023 alone, Singapore is Vietnam's largest investment partner, with 163 newly licensed projects, 72 adjustments and 164 capital contributions to buy shares with a total registered investment capital of more than 3 billion USD.
Before attending the official welcoming ceremony, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong laid a wreath and visited President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum.
During the visit, the Singaporean Prime Minister is expected to meet with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President Vo Van Thuong and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
On the last day of their visit to Vietnam, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will co-chair a series of activities: Attending a conference to promote the implementation of Vietnam-Singapore investment cooperation projects; meeting with outstanding students and having lunch with students at the Vietnam National University, Hanoi; and attending a dialogue between young leaders of the two countries and Ministers.
Before the visit, answering the press, Vietnamese Ambassador to Singapore Mai Phuoc Dung said that in October 2022, Singapore and Vietnam signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation on carbon credits.
Ambassador Mai Phuoc Dung hopes that this time the two countries will sign an agreement of great importance - the agreement on carbon credits. If signed, this will be the first agreement that Singapore has signed with a country in the world on this issue. Singapore wants the Carbon Credit Agreement to be a model for cooperation between ASEAN countries.
Singaporean Ambassador to Vietnam Jaya Ratnam said that the focus of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's visit is to promote the realization of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Green and Digital Economy Partnership that the two sides reached during Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's visit to Singapore in February 2023.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's visit will continue to strengthen, promote and deepen the Strategic Partnership between the two countries for peace and stability in the region and the world.
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