"The United States admires the resilience, determination, and progress made by the Vietnamese people. Vietnam continues to demonstrate remarkable growth and development, becoming a vital partner in the Indo-Pacific region and a leader in addressing shared global challenges", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and President of Vietnam To Lam attended a ceremony commemorating the 1st anniversary of the comprehensive strategic partnership and toward the 30th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the US in New York on September 22 (local time).
PSNews - On September 10, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and US President Joseph Biden issued a Joint Leaders’ Statement on elevating the Vietnam-US ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership. Nearly thirty years since the normalisation of ties, Vietnam-United States relationship has been elevated to the highest diplomatic tier.
The Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership has recorded comprehensive and substantive development, positively contributing to security, peace, cooperation, and development in the region and in the world.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said he hopes major powers, who are all partners to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to work towards stable relations and responsible, healthy competition, for the sake of regional and global peace and security
Bilateral trade turnover between Vietnam and the United States in the first half of the year witnessed robust growth, climbing to over US$50 billion, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
USAID will help OOG accelerate administrative reforms, enhance national inter-agency coordination and transparency, and further develop its e-government platform - the National Public Service Portal - which will improve access to information, benefitting both citizens and businesses.
At the end of the war, 1,973 U.S. military and civilian personnel were unaccounted for in Vietnam. Since then, the remains of 726 personnel have been identified and returned to their loved ones. The two agencies continue their pursuit to account for the remaining 1,247 personnel.
The Vietnam-US Comprehensive Partnership has seen remarkable progress over the past few years with important achievements obtained in all areas, but huge potential remains unleashed for the cooperation between the two countries, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc.
Vietnam attaches great importance to and expects the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership to continue to further grow in a stable, extensive and effective manner, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at his talks with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in Hanoi on July 9.
Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States (US), Pham Quang Vinh, discussed the measures required to strengthen the Vietnam-US relations during his meetings with US partners from the US Chamber of Commerce (USCC) and the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC), alongside Senator Patrick Leahy and a number of US friends, from May 31 to June 5.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong and Sandra Oudkirk, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Energy Resources of the US co-chaired the first Vietnam-US Energy Security Dialogue in Hanoi on March 30.
The recent Vietnam-US defence policy dialogue concretised the contents reached by the two countries’ defence ministers and discussed some defence cooperation issues to ensure that President Donald Trump will have an insight in bilateral ties during his upcoming visit to Vietnam, said a high-ranking officer.
President Tran Dai Quang has reiterated Vietnam’s wish to promote comprehensive, practical, stable and long-term relations with the US for mutual benefit and on the basis of respecting each other’s political regime.
Politburo member and standing member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Dinh The Huynh on October 31 wrapped up his visit to the US at the invitation of Secretary of State John Kerry.
