According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto agreed on a number of major orientations to effectively exploit cooperation potential in various fields, bringing the Strategic Partnership to increasingly deeper and more substantial development, and soon bringing the two countries' relationship to a new height, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 80th anniversary of the two countries' National Day.
Accordingly, the two sides agreed to continue to increase delegation exchanges, high-level contacts, at all levels and channels (Party, State, Government and people-to-people exchanges), effectively implement bilateral cooperation mechanisms to enhance trust and contribute to removing difficulties in all fields.
The two sides believe that they will soon reach the target of 18 billion USD in bilateral trade turnover; agreed to coordinate to remove difficulties, reduce trade barriers, facilitate the implementation of trade promotion activities and access to each other's commodity markets, including agricultural products and Halal products.
The Prime Minister affirmed that Vietnam is ready to cooperate and support Indonesia in ensuring food security; proposed to soon sign a rice trade cooperation agreement; asked Indonesia to facilitate Vietnam's agricultural products and Halal products to access the Indonesian market; and supported Vietnam in removing the IUU yellow card in the fisheries sector.
The Indonesian President-elect wants to promote cooperation with Vietnam on food security, energy security, and high technology; and hopes Vietnam will share its experience in agricultural development.
The two sides agreed to encourage and facilitate businesses from both countries to invest in each other's markets, especially in new areas such as digital economy, green economy, energy conversion, and electric vehicle ecosystem development; and to promote the early signing of cooperation documents on technical training and digital economy exchange.
The two leaders also agreed to deepen cooperation in other important areas such as defense and security, maritime cooperation, fisheries cooperation, building digital partnerships, including cross-border e-commerce, digital transformation; preventing transnational crimes and other forms of cybercrime, supporting information technology enterprises; enhancing cultural exchange, people-to-people exchange, aviation connectivity and local connectivity.
The two leaders also discussed regional and international issues of mutual concern; agreed to strengthen cooperation, consolidate solidarity, central role and common views of ASEAN on regional security issues, including the East Sea issue; promote sustainable and equitable development of sub-regions in the region, including the Mekong sub-region.
The Prime Minister suggested that Indonesia continue to closely coordinate with Vietnam to maintain solidarity, common stance and ASEAN's achievements in the East Sea issue, and promote substantive and effective COC negotiations in accordance with international law, especially the 1982 UNCLOS.
On this occasion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked Indonesia to pay attention, support and send high-level representatives to attend the ASEAN Future Forum 2025 and the Partnership for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 Summit (P4G) held in Vietnam in 2025.
