On October 14, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva met with the Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Ms. Vo Thi An Xuan.
elchi reports that the head of state expressed gratitude to the Vice President of Vietnam Vo Thi An Xuan for participating in the Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) to be held in Baku, and said that this visit also created an opportunity to discuss current bilateral issues.
Recalling his visit to Vietnam and the visit of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam to Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev noted the importance of the discussions held during these visits, and once again emphasized the strategic partnership nature of our relations.
President of Azerbaijan expressed gratitude to Vietnam for its support for the extension of our country’s chairmanship in CICA.
The guest thanked President Ilham Aliyev and the First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva for the reception and gladly recalled her previous visit to our country and her meeting with the head of state.
Vice President Vo Thi An Xuan conveyed her congratulations on Azerbaijan’s achievements, as well as its successful chairmanship of CICA and the holding of the Summit of this organization in Baku. She noted that her country highly values Azerbaijan’s chairmanship in CICA.
Noting the historical ties between Azerbaijan and Vietnam, the guest stated that the adoption of the Joint Statement on establishing a strategic partnership during the visit of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam to our country played an important role in bringing our relations to a new level.
The visits of the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh to Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, the National Leader, to Vietnam during his leadership in the USSR, as well as the visits of the head of our state to this country were gladly recalled, and it was noted that this historical heritage plays an important role in the development of Azerbaijan-Vietnam relations.
The guest highly appreciated Azerbaijan’s support for Vietnam’s development after its struggle for freedom, as well as in the restoration of the energy sector and the training of personnel, noting that this has created a good historical tradition and basis for cooperation between our countries. She also gladly recalled that thousands of Vietnamese students studied in Azerbaijan during the Soviet era.
Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Vietnam within the framework of international organizations was noted at the meeting, and an exchange of views took place on the prospects of partnership in the fields of economy, trade, transport-logistics, renewable energy, tourism, investments, and the application of a visa-free regime, in line with the spirit of our political relations.
Touching upon cooperation in the field of energy, issues related to the further expansion of partnership were discussed, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between SOCAR and “PetroVietnam”.
The guest expressed gratitude for the humanitarian and cultural projects implemented by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, headed by the First Vice President of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva, in Vietnam, and gladly recalled the visit of the Foundation’s Vice President Leyla Aliyeva to Vietnam.
