Viet Nam, Poland agree to elevate bilateral ties to Strategic Partnership
VGP - VIet Nam and Poland have agreed to elevate bilateral ties to a Strategic Partnership, Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung told reporters following his summit meeting with Polish counterpart Donald Tusk in Ha Noi on October 26.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung (right) and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk co-chair the press briefing following their summit meeting at the Government Office in Ha Noi, October 26, 2026. Photo: VGP
Le also said both sides have adopted a plan of action on enhancing Viet Nam-Poland partnership for 2026-2030 period.
Both sides pledged to coordinate closely in implementing the EU-Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) in a bid to raise the two-way trade to US$6 billion by 2030, said Le.
The two sides concurred to promote the role of the ASEAN-EU Strategic Partnership framework in order to contribute to strengthening strategic autonomy of each country, ensuring supply chains. energy security, food security, and climate change adaptation.
Both sides agreed to boost cooperation in the fields of energy transition, smart agriculture, digital transformation, space technology, pharmaceuticals, strategic infrastructure development, green transition, and sustainable development.
The two sides agreed to further deepen defense and security cooperation, promote substantive cooperation in combating transnational crime, high-tech crime, cybersecurity, and non-traditional security challenges.
The two sides agreed to elevate cooperation in science, technology, innovation, digital transformation as a new pillar of the Strategic Partnership framework while accelerating cooperation in training, scientific research, and technology transfer between universities, research institutes, and businesses.
For his side, Tusk emphasized that the upgrade of bilateral ties to Strategic Partnership reflects the political trust and solid foundation for cooperation between the two countries, while opening up new opportunities for advancing bilateral cooperation in a substantive and effective manner in the future.
The Polish Prime Minister affirmed that Viet Nam is one of Poland's major partners in Asia, expressing his confidence that the two countries could further deepen their ties based on a long history of cooperation, friendship and positive cooperation results achieved over years./.