On August 6 (local time), within the framework of a State visit to Egypt, at the Senate headquarters, Politburo member and President Luong Cuong met with President of the Egyptian Senate Abdel- Wahab Abdel-Razeq.
Welcoming President Luong Cuong's visit to the Senate headquarters, Senate President Abdel- Wahab Abdel Razeq assessed the visit as taking place at the right time, thereby bringing the relationship between the two countries into a new stage of development in all fields, bringing a better future to the two countries and the two peoples.
The President of the Senate said that as two traditional and loyal friends, Vietnam and Egypt need to strengthen political trust, mutual understanding, and cooperation and solidarity.
President Abdel- Wahab Abdel-Razeq affirmed that the Egyptian Senate wishes to promote cooperation with the Vietnamese National Assembly and will take all necessary measures to support the State and Government of the two countries to promote the effective and substantive implementation of commitments and cooperation plans, for the benefit of the people of the two countries.
Thanking the warm welcome of the Egyptian Senate to the high-ranking delegation of Vietnam, President Luong Cuong shared his impression of visiting Egypt for the first time, which not only has a brilliant ancient civilization but is also developing strongly and playing an important role in the region and the world. The long-standing friendship and history between Vietnam and Egypt is a precious traditional capital, and the two countries need to further promote it to implement the newly established Comprehensive Partnership framework.
President Luong Cuong said that the two countries still have a lot of potential to further promote bilateral cooperation, especially in economics, trade, and investment, commensurate with the good political relations and potential and advantages of each country.
Accordingly, President Luong Cuong suggested that the National Assemblies of the two countries closely coordinate, support the effective implementation of bilateral cooperation mechanisms, support negotiations, improve policies and agreements, perfect the legal framework, help strengthen cooperation between businesses, open markets for goods of the two sides, and connect people of the two countries.
To further develop the Vietnam - Egypt relationship for the benefit, prosperity and happiness of the people of the two countries in the coming time, the two leaders agreed to further promote the role of parliamentary diplomacy, enhance cooperation between the two countries' National Assemblies through promoting the exchange of National Assembly leadership delegations, leaders of specialized committees of the two legislative bodies to share legislative and supervisory experiences; continue to closely coordinate between the two countries' National Assemblies, promote cooperation between the Arab Parliamentary Group and the Asian Parliamentary Group at multilateral multi-parliamentary forums, promote exchanges between young parliamentarians and female parliamentarians. The two sides agreed to soon establish the Friendship Parliamentarians' Association of the two countries for regular exchanges and propose measures to strengthen cooperation between the two countries' parliamentarians.
