On the afternoon of November 13, local time, at the Casa de Pizarro Presidential Palace, right after the solemn official welcoming ceremony and private meeting, President Luong Cuong held official talks with President Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two leaders expressed their delight at the growing bilateral relations through maintaining the exchange of high-level visits and contacts, through all channels of the Party, State, Government, National Assembly and localities; effectively implementing existing cooperation mechanisms such as the Political Consultation at the Deputy Foreign Minister level, the Intergovernmental Committee and close and effective cooperation at multilateral forums.
The two sides were pleased to see that economic and trade relations continue to be strengthened in the context of many challenges facing the global economy; Peru is currently Vietnam's 6th largest trading partner and Vietnam's most important investment destination in Latin America.
President Luong Cuong emphasized that Vietnam and Peru still have great potential for cooperation development, especially when many products enjoy tax exemption incentives from the fact that both countries are members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP); he proposed that the Peruvian Government create favorable conditions and have special policies for Vietnamese enterprises to cooperate and invest effectively in Peru, contributing to building Peru to become more and more prosperous, serving the interests of the people.
President Dina Boluarte affirmed that the Peruvian Government will create favorable conditions for Viettel, through the Bitel telecommunications project, to continue expanding its business activities in Peru, participating in digital transformation projects, providing digital infrastructure, smart cities... so that Bitel can consolidate its role as a typical model of cooperation between Vietnam and Peru, thereby attracting more investment from Vietnamese enterprises in Peru.
In that spirit, President Dina Boluarte informed about Peru's socio-economic development orientations and policies in the coming time, highlighting the importance of Chancay port connecting Latin America and Southeast Asia via the Pacific Ocean, which will be inaugurated during the APEC 2024 Summit Week, and expressed the hope that Vietnamese enterprises will be interested in and participate in investment projects to develop multimodal logistics, industrial and technological centers around this port.
The two sides affirmed the will of the two countries to upgrade bilateral relations to a new level.
In that spirit, the two leaders agreed to continue to focus on promoting cooperation in areas of both sides' strengths and interests such as economics - trade - investment, including opening each other's markets for agricultural products, national defense - security, agriculture, telecommunications, digital transformation, energy, education - training, cooperation and exchange of experiences in poverty reduction, climate change response, culture, tourism, people-to-people exchange; actively negotiate and sign bilateral cooperation documents to perfect the legal framework for sustainable development of bilateral relations.
The two leaders agreed to create favorable conditions for the business communities of the two countries to increase exchanges and business cooperation to increase bilateral trade turnover commensurate with the potential of the two countries.
The President of Peru expressed his wish that Vietnam would soon open a diplomatic representative office in Lima, Peru.
After the talks, the two leaders issued a Joint Statement on strengthening bilateral relations between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Peru; witnessed the signing of cooperation documents in the field of trade promotion; and met with the press of the two countries and international press.
