(VOVworld)-Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang has begun his official visit to Myanmar to reinstate the country’s policy of treasuring multifaceted cooperation with Myanmar.

President Truong Tan Sang and President Thein Sein (Photo: Internet)

During talks on Thursday with President Thein Sein, both leaders agreed to promote exchanges of visits to strengthen mutual understanding. They agreed to further expand cooperation in agro-forestry, fisheries, tree plantations, telecommunications, oil and gas and mining.  Sang pledged Vietnam’s support for Myanmar’s successful  role as ASEAN Chair in 2014. The two leaders vowed to work closely at multilateral forums and support each other’s membership of regional and international organisations. They agreed on maintaining peace, stability, security, maritime safety and freedom in the East Sea and settling disputes by peaceful means in accordance with international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Both sides welcomed the bloc’s Six-point Principles on the East Sea and the Joint Statement of the ASEAN – China Summit celebrating the 10^th anniversary of ratifying the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC). Following the talks, both leaders witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding to exchange banking supervision information between the State Bank of Vietnam and the Central Bank of Myanmar , and a cooperation agreement between the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group and Myanmar ’s Ministry of Energy.