On the afternoon of March 10, in Jakarta, Indonesia, after a solemn welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace, General Secretary To Lam held talks with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two leaders expressed their delight at the Vietnam - Indonesia friendship founded by two outstanding leaders, President Ho Chi Minh and President Sukarno, which has been constantly developing strongly over the past 70 years, becoming more and more substantial and effective, especially after the establishment of the Strategic Partnership in 2013.
Based on the solid achievements, the two sides agreed to upgrade the Vietnam - Indonesia relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Vietnam is Indonesia's first Comprehensive Strategic partner in ASEAN; affirming this is a historic event, bringing the Vietnam - Indonesia relationship into a new, deeper, more comprehensive and more substantial era of cooperation, for the benefit of the people of the two countries as well as peace, development and prosperity of ASEAN and the world.
General Secretary To Lam and President Prabowo Subianto agreed to continue to deepen political trust between the two countries through promoting exchanges and contacts, especially at high levels through all channels of the Party, State, Government, Parliament, people-to-people exchanges, businesses and local connectivity; effectively implementing bilateral cooperation mechanisms, promptly developing an Action Program to effectively exploit and enhance cooperation in all fields.
The two sides agreed to further promote defense and security cooperation, promote information exchange, search and rescue, and enhance experience sharing in preventing transnational crimes, especially online fraud rings, human trafficking, forced labor and terrorist threats.
General Secretary To Lam and President Prabowo Subianto agreed to expand and deepen economic cooperation; promote connections between the two economies in the spirit of mutually beneficial and mutually developing cooperation; remove difficulties and trade barriers, support businesses in implementing import-export activities, especially agricultural and aquatic products, strive to soon reach 18 billion USD in bilateral trade turnover in the direction of balance; promote agricultural cooperation and ensure food security; encourage and facilitate businesses of the two countries to invest conveniently in each other's markets, especially in new areas such as digital economy, green economy, energy conversion, development of electric vehicle ecosystems, e-commerce, smart goods, digital payments, design and processing software for factories, build solutions based on new AI technology and products.
President Prabowo Subianto highly appreciated and hoped that large Vietnamese enterprises such as Vingroup and TH True Milk would continue to expand their business and investment in Indonesia.
The two sides also agreed to promote cooperation in specialized fields, expand cooperation in science and technology, innovation, information technology, towards building digital partnerships and digital economy, and enhance cooperation in new fields such as green economy, digital economy, innovation, science and technology, digital transformation.
On this occasion, the General Secretary respectfully invited President Prabowo Subianto to visit Vietnam and invited Indonesian leaders to attend the 4th Green Growth and Global Goal (P4G) Summit in April in Hanoi. President Prabowo Subianto happily accepted the invitation and hoped to soon visit Vietnam again.
After the talks, General Secretary To Lam and President Prabowo Subianto witnessed the exchange of cooperation documents and met with the press to inform about the results of the talks; officially announced the upgrading of Vietnam - Indonesia relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
