Chinese, Vietnamese FMs Vow to Further Enhance Bilateral Ties

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Chinese, Vietnamese FMs Vow to Further Enhance Bilateral Ties

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Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Dy Nien held talks Tuesday in Bandar seri Begawan, focusing on how to further enhance bilateral relations between the two countries.

During the meeting on sidelines of the ongoing annual meets of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), both sides voiced satisfaction with current developments in bilateral relations.

The two ministers said they believed that the policy of building long-term, good-neighborly and full cooperative relationswhich are oriented toward the future, will provide guidance for the development of bilateral ties in the new century.

They agreed that the two countries should work together and faithfully implement the visions shared by leaders of both sides on the development of bilateral relations so as to lift the bilateral cooperation into new highs continuously.

The two sides also agreed that to comply with the overall trends in bilateral ties, the two countries need to speed up negotiations on the fishery issue in the Beibu Gulf and try to settle the issue within this year.

Tang and Nien said the two countries also plan to finalize the demarcation work of their land border in three years.

They said there should be more exchanges and cooperation between foreign ministries of the two countries.

Nien reaffirmed that Vietnam always maintains that Taiwan is aninseparable part of China and sticks to the One China Policy.

Vietnam is a member of the ASEAN which also groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. China is one of the 10 dialogue partners of the regional bloc.

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