According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh reiterated the impressions and good results of his official visit to Hungary in January 2024; believing that President Sulyok Tamas's visit to Vietnam this time will create new momentum to promote the strong development of the Vietnam - Hungary Comprehensive Partnership in all fields.
The Prime Minister affirmed that Vietnam never forgot the valuable support and support that Hungary has devoted to Vietnam in the struggle for independence and reunification of the country before and built and developed the country today; Thanks Hungary is the most committed credit for Vietnam in Vietnam in the Middle Eastern Europe with $ 500 million.
The Prime Minister emphasized that in implementing a peaceful, independent, self-reliant, diversified and multilateralized foreign policy on international relations, as a friend, a trusted partner and a responsible member of the international community, Vietnam always attaches importance to strengthening relations with traditional friends in the Middle East European region, in which Hungary is a top priority.
President Sulyok Tamas highly appreciated Vietnam's increasingly high role and position in the region and in the international arena; said that Vietnam's path is on the right track, affirming that Vietnam is always Hungary's leading important partner in ASEAN.
The President completely agreed with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's proposal on 6 groups of cooperation measures that need to be strengthened to further deepen the bilateral relationship, including:
Enhance political trust through continuing to promote the exchange of delegations, thereby promoting cooperation in the fields; In the context that the world has complicated developments, the two sides need to continue to unite, closely coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums, support the position of settling disputes by peaceful measures, on the basis of respect for international law, to strengthen the peaceful and stable environment for development in each region and the world; Strengthening the pillar of trade and investment cooperation in the two countries' relations, early meeting with the Mixed Committee on economic cooperation, striving to achieve 2 billion USD trade turnover soon.
Strengthen development cooperation between the two countries, propose and effectively implement the Preferential Credit Projects of Hungary Government for Vietnam; Strengthening educational cooperation is the field of traditional cooperation between the two countries, especially in the fields of nuclear energy, electricity, pharmacy, tourism, climate change ...; Strengthen labor cooperation, one of the potential areas of complementary potential between the two sides; Strengthen cultural cooperation, tourism and people's exchange, focusing on coordinating to organize activities to celebrate the 75th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries in 2025.
The Hungarian President affirmed that he would urge the remaining European Union (EU) countries to soon ratify the Vietnam - EU Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), support and urge the European Commission (EC) to soon remove the "IUU yellow card" for Vietnam's seafood exports.
The two sides agreed to continue to effectively implement the agreements between the two countries, promote cooperation in traditional fields such as trade - investment, science - technology, education - training, national defense - security, medicine - pharmacy, culture - tourism and people-to-people exchanges, and at the same time expand cooperation to areas where both sides have strengths and needs for complementarity such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and labor.
