After the official welcome ceremony was held solemnly, on the afternoon of April 15 at the Government headquarters, Member of the Politburo and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with Ethiopia A -AiMed Ali.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the talks, the two leaders together looked back on bilateral relations and exchanged and unified specific directions and measures to continue strengthening and deepening cooperation in the fields between the two countries in the coming time.
The Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that in the overall foreign policy, Vietnam always attaches great importance to friendship with friends in Africa, including Ethiopia.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali affirmed that Ethiopia considered Vietnam as its external priority in Asia and the desire to develop bilateral cooperation in Vietnam in areas where the two sides have strengths and potential.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali affirmed the importance of maintaining contacts at all levels, especially high -levels on all channels of the Party, State, National Assembly as well as between ministries, departments, branches, localities and businesses of the two countries to strengthen political reliability; Agreeing to early research open diplomatic missions in each country.
Recognizing positive progress in economic cooperation with Vietnamese enterprises initially interested in investing in Ethiopia, the two Prime Ministers said that the existing cooperation is not commensurate with the scale and potential of the two economies with a total market scale of over 230 million people and has a leading growth rate of the two regions.
The two sides agreed to negotiate the basic agreements and agreements to create a legal corridor for economic cooperation, especially the Free Trade Agreement, the Agreement on Investment and Investment Protection, the Tax Agreement, the Agreement on Twice, Cooperation Agreement on Network Security and High -tech Crime Prevention ...
The two Prime Ministers also agreed to exchange and introduce investment projects in potential areas such as telecommunications, digital transformation, cybersecurity, mining, industrial and consumer goods production, processing industry processing, export of agricultural products, civil construction, infrastructure development, education and training, health, tourism ...
Abiy Prime Minister Ahmed Ali welcomed and wish Vietnam successfully organized the P4G Summit, contributing to global efforts for green and sustainable development. The Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that Vietnam is ready to make a bridge to promote cooperation between ASEAN and Ethiopia, wishing Ethiopia to support Vietnam to promote relations with the African Union (AU) and the Eastern African countries; Ready to support Ethiopia to hold a P4G summit in 2027.
After the talks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali witnessed the signing ceremony of cooperation documents including: The Memorandum of Memorandum of Trade Cooperation between the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam and the Ministry of Trade and Ethiopia Integration, the Memorandum of Education Cooperation between the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. Earlier, the two sides signed a memorandum of cooperation between the Vietnam Trade and Industry Federation and the Chamber of Commerce and the Ethiopia Industry Association.
On the occasion of the visit, the Vietnamese side gave an approval letter to allow Ethiopian Airlines to open a direct flight connecting the capital of the two countries, the only straight route so far will be implemented to create conditions for trade connection between the two countries in particular and between Vietnam and Africa in general.
