Vietnamese President Hopes for Closer Ties With ChinaVietnamese President Tran Duc Luong said Thursday that Vietnam attaches great importance to its good neighborliness and cooperation with China and is willing to boost bilateral ties to a higher level.Tran, who is also a standing politburo member of the Vietnamese Communist Party, made the remarks in Ho Chi Minh City while meeting with Huang Ju, a politburo member of the Chinese Communist Party and Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Shanghai City Committee. Huang said that exchanges and cooperation have increased between the two countries and two parties since China and Vietnam normalized their relations in 1991. It is both of important practical and far-reaching historic significance for the two countries and two parties to further develop their friendship and cooperation in the new century, he added. Huang, who arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, is on a four-nation visit that will also take him to Laos, Japan and South Korea. |
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