UAE becomes Viet Nam's first comprehensive partner in Middle East
VGP – Viet Nam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to lift up their ties to a comprehensive partnership to meet the aspiration of the two countries' people and to contribute to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in the summit meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, October 28, 2024. Photo: VGP
The agreement was made by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during their summit meeting in Abu Dhabi on October 28.
With this move, the UAE has become Viet Nam's first comprehensive partner in the Middle East.
Sheikh Mohammed lauded Viet Nam's glorious history and development achievements, affirming Viet Nam is a major partner of his country in Asia.
Pham expressed his admiration for the UEA's development achievements, which have helped the country to become a top economic, financial and technological hub in the Middle East.
Both sides expressed their delight at the remarkable developments in the Viet Nam-UAE relations, featuring with increasingly consolidated political trust and understanding, increasingly subtantive economic cooperation, and increasingly close coordination and support at multilateral forums.
The two leaders outlined six priorities to boost bilateral cooperation: (i) promptly formulating an action program to implement the newly-established comprehensive partnership framework, (ii) promoting cooperation in innovation, digital transformation, green transition, and circular economy, (iii) creating a breakthrough in economic, trade and investment cooperation; (iv) working together to develop Halal industry; (v) strengthening cooperation in labor, culture, tourism, sports, people-to-people exchange; (vi) maintaining close coordination and mutual support over regional and international issues at multilateral forums.
Sheikh Mohammed voiced his support for the establishment of Viet Nam's Cultural Center in the UAE, for a youth football training academy and for financial center project in Ho Chi Minh City.
Regarding the East Sea issue, Prime Minister Pham called on the UAE to back ASEAN and Viet Nam's positions on the East Sea in order to ensure peace, security, safety and freedom of navigation and aviation and resolve disputes via peaceful measures on the basis of respect for international law, the United Nations Charter and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Prime Minister Pham took the occasion to convey Vietnamese President Luong Cuong's invitation to Sheikh Mohammed to visit Viet Nam./.
