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Vietnam Attaches Importance to Promoting Relations with Thailand: Vietnamese Leaders
Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong told visiting Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai in Hanoi Wednesday that Vietnam would always attach importance to enhancing the friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with Thailand.
At a meeting with the Thai Foreign Minister this afternoon, Luong said Vietnam treasured the Vietnam-Thailand friendship and cooperation and that it had been broadened and deepened since the two countries established diplomatic ties 25 years ago.
"The friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance for development between our two nations have been developing smoothly, benefiting stability and peace in the region," he said.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai Wednesday also met here with the Thai Foreign Minister Sathirathai, who arrived here for a one-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien, saying that the two countries should bolster the multi-faceted cooperation either on bilateral basis or in the framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreements.
He said that in addition to taking measures to increase two-way trade, both countries should continue cooperating in a program to develop the "East-West corridor" so as to help people in the region promote socio-economic development and improve their living standards.
Khai emphasized that Vietnam would do its best to make the Vietnam-Thailand border in particular and the common borders of ASEAN countries in general zones of peace and stability.
During his meeting with Vietnamese President and Prime Minister, Sathirathai expressed his confidence that the bilateral friendship and cooperation in diplomacy, commerce and investment between the neighboring countries would improve and expand to include effective cooperation in exporting rice, fishing and road construction.
Earlier on the same day, Sathirathai held talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Dy Nien soon after his arrival here.
He told Nien that Thailand's new government would continue strengthening its friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with Vietnam.
Vietnam presently holds ASEAN's rotating chairmanship. The visiting Foreign Minister emphasized that Thailand was ready to cooperate with and support Vietnam in the job.
Sathirathai already ended his official visit to Vietnam Wednesday evening.
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