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Vietnam - India show high confidence in the partnership
Vietnam - India show high confidence in the partnership
30/10/14
The visit
of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to India ended with great success,
demonstrated by the major and important results follows:
First, the
two sides reaffirmed relations and
consensus on further deepening strategic partner relationships and developing
comprehensive cooperation between the two countries in all fields, including
politics, economy, defense and security, science and technology, education and
culture. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Indian leaders asserted that
the two sides consistently advocated the traditional friendship and strategic
partnership between Vietnam
and India, considered Vietnam as an important pillar in the East
policies of India.
The two sides agreed to strengthen exchanges of visits at high levels and at
all levels, on all channels such as the Party, the Government and the National
Assembly; cooperation between ministries, sectors, localities and people
exchanges; confirmed further promote the efficiency of the existing cooperation
mechanisms such as the Intergovernmental Committee, Political Strategic
Dialogue, Dialogue on Defence Policy, economic science and technology ,
culture, education, oil and gas cooperation, ...; successfully implementing the
agreement signed between the two countries; promoting establish new cooperation
mechanisms in accordance with the requirements of development cooperation
between the two countries.
Second, for
the development of strategic partnership relations and comprehensive cooperation,
the two sides emphasized to strengthen and deepen the pillars of economy,
trade, investment and defense-security. Economically, the two sides agreed to
consider strengthening economic cooperation as a strategic goal of bilateral
relations; striving to achieve $15 billion in 2020. Prime Minister Narendra
Modi made statement that India was ready to lend Vietnam a loan of $300 million to import raw
materials for a number of economic sectors to help Vietnam diversifying the
supply of inputs, to avoid being dependent on a market; agreed to create
favorable conditions to consider opening up the market for investment, Vietnam’s
goods, especially agricultural products, aquatic products, rubber and wood
products. India also invited
Vietnam to attend business
forum in India, first as a
business forum in the state of Gujarat and
wanted the two sides would jointly organizeda business forum on tourism in Bodh
Gaya in early 2015.
For defense
and security, the two sides agreed to further strengthen cooperation on defense
and security which base on mechanisms and the existing cooperation agreement;
increase the exchange of delegations, dialogues on defense and security policies.
India agreed to continue to
assist Vietnam
in credit, training and capacity building of national defense and sharing the
experiences of participating in the peacekeeping force of the United Nations
... The two sides agreed to enhance cooperation, share information and
experiences on defense and security, coordination in related multilateral fora
such as ADMM Plus, ARF ...
On the
other areas of cooperation, the two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation on
aviation and sea connections; stressed the need to take advantage of opportunities
in the two countries’ airlines to open direct flights between Vietnam and India to boost cooperation in
tourism, trade and investment. Jet Airways has launched non-stop flights Delhi - Ho Chi
Minh City. Vietjet Air is negotiating with Indian
partners to open route between Hanoi
-
Bodh Gaya; strengthen
cooperation in science and technology, culture, education and training ...;
sign a cooperation agreement in the field of remote sensing in short coming
time; efficiently organize every two years Friendship Festival between Vietnam-India.
Third,
the two sides agreed to international and regional issues of mutual concern,
including the South China Sea issue. The two
sides will continue cooperating in international fora such as the ASEAN-India,
East Asia Summit (EAS), cooperation Mekong-Ganga, ASEM, accelerating the
negotiation on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Regarding
the South China Sea issue, the two sides stressed the importance of ensuring
peace, stability, security, safety, freedom of navigation and aviation in the
South China Sea, settling disputes by peaceful means, do not use or threat to
use of force, complying with international law, the UN Convention on the Law of
the Sea 1982 and Declaration on the conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC),
supporting the rapid achievement of COC. India asserted stance in favor of
Vietnam and ASEAN in resolving South China Sea issue, the request of necessary
to ensure freedom of navigation, unimpeded aviation, respecting the legitimate
rights and interests of the countries in the South China Sea... India agreed to further strengthen cooperation
with Vietnam to explore and
exploit oil and gas in the waters of Vietnam
in the South China Sea. India at the same time affirmed willing to
cooperate with Vietnam
and ASEAN in implementing initiatives to develop mechanisms to maintain and
ensure peace, stability, cooperation and development in this area.
Finish
the visit, the two sides issued a joint statement on the results of the visit
and signed several important cooperation agreements.
Both
sides expressed high confidence in the political system and the field of
bilateral cooperation while reflecting the general consensus on international and
regional issues of mutual interest, including the South
China Sea issues. This is particularly significant importance of
the traditional friendship relationship and strategic partnership between Vietnam-India.
The above important results of the visit have deepenned the traditional
friendship relations, strategic partnership between the two countries and
developped comprehensively, and effectively partnership of the two countries on
the fields of politics, economy, trade, investment, national defense, security,
oil and gas cooperation, science and technology, culture, education, tourism, people
exchange ...
The visit
also created conditions for the two countries to exploit the potential of new
areas of cooperation, continueing to support each other on the basis of mutual
benefits, including the promotion of cooperation in agriculture, fisheries,
infrastructure, power, oil and gas, space, technology and information. India confirmed to support Vietnam in the diversification of
the supply of raw materials for economy, industry; expand connectivity by air
or sea... The target 15 billion USD of bilateral trade in 2020 is certainly
achievable and India will
probably become one of the leading and territories investing in Vietnam.
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