(VOVworld) -  Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel agreed to strengthen bilateral ties across politics, economics, culture, education-training, and science-technology during their talks in Brussels on Wednesday.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel (R).

The two Prime Ministers agreed to accelerate the building and implementation of projects in logistics, transport, green growth, and outer space, while further facilitating import of each other’s goods.

They also agreed on to jointly boost Vietnam-EU ties, push forward the EU’s ratification of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and the early signing of the Vietnam-EU FTA.

The two PMs pledged to continue working closely together at the UN, the ASEAN, the Asia-Europe Meeting and the International Francophone Organisation.

PM Charles Michel said that Belgium supports the settlement of the East Sea issue by peaceful means in line with international law, the UN Charter, the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, towards reaching a political and legally-binding agreement among parties concerned.

Senate President Christine Defraigne (R) and PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

At separate meetings with President of the Lower House of Belgium Siegfried Bracke and Senate President Christine Defraigne, the two leaders of the Belgian parliament expressed their satisfaction at the fine development of the Vietnam- Belgium relations and cooperation.

They shared the view that Vietnam and Belgium should continue carrying out projects and fully tap their potential to develop bilateral links across economics, trade, investment, education-training, science-technology, and climate change response.

The two Belgium officials also consented to support the strengthening of the Vietnam-European Union comprehensive partnership.