Việt Nam and Belarus have agreed to boost bilateral trade and diversify their trade structure, identifying economic cooperation as a key pillar and driver of broader ties between the two countries.
The agreement was reached on Wednesday during talks between Vietnamese Foreign Minister Lê Hoài Trung and Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov, who is on an official visit to Việt Nam.
Trung reaffirmed Việt Nam’s commitment to its traditional friendship and strategic partnership with Belarus, welcoming positive developments in bilateral relations, particularly the establishment of the strategic partnership.
Ryzhenkov described Việt Nam as one of Belarus’s important partners in Southeast Asia and expressed his country’s desire to build on their longstanding friendship and make effective use of the strategic partnership framework.
He called for continued high-level and other exchanges through Party and State channels, effective implementation of existing cooperation mechanisms and expanded ties between the two parliaments, localities and businesses, as well as more people-to-people exchanges.
