Party chief meets Singaporean President, top legislator

President Tharman said the Vietnamese leader's official visit to Singapore holds special significance.

The upgrade of bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership opens up a new chapter for the bilateral ties at a crucial time for both countries and inject fresh momentum for their people and businesses, emphasized the Singaporean leader.

He expressed his belief that Viet Nam will maintain its position as one of the most dynamic economies in the region, with impressive GDP growth, an attractive investment environment, and a continuously rising international standing.

Both sides should continue to promote exemplary cooperation models, further leverage opportunities for collaboration in new areas such as digital transformation and the carbon credit market; strengthen energy cooperation and enhance power grid connectivity, including the ASEAN power grid, he suggested.

To, for his part, stressed major directions and specific measures to implement the newly established comprehensive strategic partnership, including making the two countries pioneering partners in the region in science and technology cooperation, innovation, digital transformation, energy, data connectivity, semiconductor manufacturing, new technologies, and artificial intelligence.

The two leaders compared notes on regional and international issues, expressing their pleasure that the two countries share various similarities and have maintained active collaboration to contribute to ensuring a peaceful environment and sustainable development in the region.

During the meeting between To and the top Singaporean legislator, both sides expressed their delight with the positive and substantive outcomes of bilateral cooperation across multiple areas, including politics, diplomacy, defense-security, trade-investment, science-technology, education-training, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges.

Peng described the recent elevation of bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership, the first comprehensive strategic partner of Singapore within ASEAN, as a historic milestone, which would opens up numerous cooperation and development opportunities for the two nations, thereby contributing to regional growth.

The Parliament of Singapore has maintained close relationship with the Vietnamese National Assembly via high-level visits, he noted, suggesting both sides strengthen ties across Party, State, Parliament, people-to-people, and business channels, laying a foundation and contributing to shaping future bilateral relations.

Singapore stands ready to assist Viet Nam in human resource training, he reiterated.

For his side, To asserted that Viet Nam treasures and expects to develop its comprehensive strategic partnership with Singapore towards a more profound and comprehensive manner.

The same day, To Lam met former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is currently Senior Minister and Senior Advisor to the People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore and Singaporean Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean./.