Vietnamese, Malaysian senior officials meet to boost strategic partnership
(VOVWORLD) - Assistant to the Foreign Minister Pham Quang Hieu and Deputy Secretary General at the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amran Bin Mohamed Zin co-chaired the second Vietnam-Malaysia Senior Officials’ Strategic Dialogue on Wednesday.
 The second Vietnam-Malaysia Senior Officials’ Strategic Dialogue, April 28, 2021 (Photo: baoquocte.vn) |
Both pledged to work closely to hold high-level and all-level delegation exchanges when conditions allow and to soon implement bilateral cooperation mechanisms such as joint committee and joint trade committee.
The officials noted they will also speed up the building of an action program on implementing the nations’ strategic partnership for 2021 – 2025 so that the document can be approved by the 6th meeting of the countries’ joint committee for cooperating in economy and science-technology scheduled for the last half of this year.
They reiterated continued mutual support and collaboration at multilateral organizations and forums, including ASEAN and the UN.
Both sides emphasized the importance of maintaining peace, stability, security, and maritime and aviation safety in the East Sea, resolving disputes by peaceful measures in line with international law, particularly the 1982 UN Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and facilitating the negotiation on a practical and effective Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).