National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Hanoi
WVR - On the afternoon of October 26, at the National Assembly House, National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man met with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who is on an official visit to Vietnam from October 24 to 26.
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| National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man meets Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. (Source: VNA) |
Welcoming Prime Minister Donald Tusk, National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man expressed his delight at the outcomes of the Prime Minister's discussions and meetings with General Secretary, President To Lam, and Prime Minister Le Minh Hung. He affirmed that the Vietnamese National Assembly supports vigorously promoting inter-parliamentary cooperation with the Polish Parliament, enhancing the role of legislative bodies in creating favorable legal frameworks and overseeing the implementation of agreements and commitments, effectively deploying cooperation areas between the two countries.
The National Assembly President emphasised that Vietnam is actively improving its legal system, ensuring effective administrative reform, innovating development models, and enhancing the competitiveness of the economy, aiming for rapid and sustainable national development goals. Through its legislative and supervisory activities, the Vietnamese National Assembly will create a favourable and transparent investment and business environment, improve policy implementation efficiency, and strengthen the confidence of both domestic and foreign businesses, laying the foundation for long-term cooperation with Poland.
The National Assembly President was pleased to note that Vietnam-Poland relations are currently at their best stage of development, providing an important premise for both countries to enter a new phase of development.
Based on the newly established Strategic Partnership framework, National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man suggested that both sides focus on implementing the Action Plan for the 2026-2030 period with specific goals. Maintaining effective high-level exchange mechanisms and bilateral agreements will be a crucial foundation to ensure the sustainable and long-term development of bilateral relations.
Both sides need to enhance economic cooperation based on supply chain and investment linkages, focusing on promoting investment in areas where Poland has strengths and aligns with Vietnam's development needs. The goal of increasing bilateral trade turnover to 6 billion USD should be achieved by establishing mechanisms to support businesses, creating a safe and transparent investment environment, aiming to make Vietnam an important link in the regional and global supply chain. Additionally, Vietnam is ready to become a strategic gateway, helping Polish businesses access the ASEAN market more conveniently and effectively.
The two countries should focus on breakthrough areas such as high technology, renewable energy, biotechnology, and digital transformation. Furthermore, strengthening cooperation in developing transportation infrastructure, logistics, and marine economy will create an important material foundation, promoting connectivity between the two nations and between Vietnam and the ASEAN region.
National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man thanked the Polish Parliament for ratifying the Vietnam-EU Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) and suggested that Poland coordinate to urge the remaining EU countries to ratify it soon so that the Agreement can take effect. He encouraged Polish businesses to invest in pharmaceuticals, green energy, infrastructure, and logistics in Vietnam.
In the field of science, technology, and innovation, the National Assembly President proposed enhancing support to improve the capacity of Vietnamese enterprises, technology transfer, and cooperation in pharmaceuticals, digital transformation, and high-quality agriculture. He also emphasized the importance of expanding cultural and educational cooperation, welcoming Poland's increase in scholarships for Vietnam, and suggested facilitating visas to promote tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
To ensure parliamentary cooperation aligns with the development needs of both countries, the National Assembly President proposed increasing delegation exchanges between the leaders of the two legislative bodies, specialized committees, friendship parliamentary groups, female parliamentarians, and young parliamentarians, sharing experiences in building a rule-of-law state. He also suggested that both sides closely coordinate at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP), and invited the Polish Parliament leaders to visit Vietnam at a convenient time.
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| National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at their meeting. (Photo: VNA) |
Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed thanks for the warm and cordial reception from the National Assembly President, leaders, and people of Vietnam, considering it a testament to the heartfelt connections. He affirmed that Poland values its relationship with Vietnam and sees significant potential in bilateral cooperation. The Prime Minister emphasised the need to implement the Strategic Partnership framework through joint projects, focusing on the Action Plan for the 2026-2030 period signed by both sides this time. He suggested that the Vietnamese National Assembly support sharing priority areas in cooperation for both sides to focus on promoting.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk noted that the Poland-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Group has made significant contributions to enhancing relations between the two parliaments, with the group's chairman also participating in this delegation. The Polish Prime Minister particularly emphasised the role of cooperation in education and training, scientific research, and technology transfer between universities, research institutes, and businesses of the two countries. He shared personal insights on people-to-people exchanges, tourism, and education and training cooperation as a solid foundation for the development of the good relationship between the two countries.
Regarding specific areas of cooperation, the Prime Minister expressed a desire to strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in culture, education and training, security, defense, and space cooperation, connecting businesses with vocational training institutions to develop human resources that meet practical needs.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk supported enhancing cooperation between the two parliaments, thereby promoting experience exchange and supporting the implementation of joint projects. He agreed to leverage the role of parliamentary cooperation in promoting the implementation of high-level agreements, linking legislative experience exchange with implementation oversight, turning cooperation orientations into concrete results that bring practical benefits to people and businesses.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk highly appreciated the Vietnamese community in Poland, considering it a well-integrated community welcomed by the Polish people and a bridge in bilateral relations. With his affection for Vietnam, the Prime Minister affirmed his commitment to coordinating efforts to urge the remaining EU countries to ratify EVIPA and to encourage the European Commission to consider lifting the IUU yellow card for Vietnam.
On this occasion, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk conveyed greetings and regards from the Polish Parliament leaders to National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man. In return, NA President Tran Thanh Man extended invitation to visit Vietnam to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Polish Parliament.
