Viet Nam, EU work to expand cooperation in priority areas
The second meeting of the political affairs sub-committee of the Joint Committee under the EU-Viet Nam Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation Framework Agreement (PCA) took place virtually on April 13.
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| Assistant to the Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet co-chairs the meeting. (Photo: Tuan Anh) |
Assistant to the Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet and Deputy Managing Director for Asia and Pacific of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Paola Pampaloni co-chaired the event, which was held on the occasion of Viet Nam and the EU celebrating a decade of signing the PCA (June, 2012 – 2022).
The sides discussed recent notable situations and a number of key policy orientations for socio-economic development and international collaboration in their respective areas.
Lauding the bilateral ties’ progress despite COVID-19, particularly in trade-investment and pandemic-prevention cooperation, they agreed to further strengthen and expand join works during their recovery phase in such prioritised sectors as trade-investment, sciece-technology, green transition, digital transformation, innovation, agriculture and security-defence.
They also discussed the promotion of cooperation at multilateral forums like the UN and the Asia-Europe Forum (ASEM) as well as the frameworks of the Mekong sub-region cooperation and of the ASEAN – EU strategic partnership.
(Source: VNA)
