“The comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and the United States has been deeply developed in recent years, with effective and practical progress being made both in bilateral relations and multilateral mechanisms in all fields,” he said Thursday. press the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pham Thu Hang.
“The two sides discuss measures to further deepen Vietnam-US relations in the direction of stability and solidity, moving towards a new level of relations when conditions are right to help ensure peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region as well as in the world,” she said.
Relations between Vietnam and the United States were normalized in 1995 and transformed into a comprehensive partnership in 2013.
The economic and development ties between the two states are already deep and growing stronger.
Bilateral trade between the two states was worth more than $123.86 billion last year, up 11% from 2021.
The United States is Vietnam’s largest export market and second largest trading partner, while Vietnam is the United States’ eighth largest trading partner.
US investment in Vietnam exceeded $11 billion, the 11th highest of any country or territory.
Education and training have also played an important role in the friendship the two countries share, as every year some 25,000 Vietnamese students study abroad in the United States.
In terms of security cooperation, the United States recently handed over two Hamilton-class vessels, the second-largest class of US Coast Guard vessels, to the Vietnam Coast Guard under the Excess Defense Articles program ( EDA).
Both sides have prioritized humanitarian cooperation, overcoming the consequences of war and completing dioxin decontamination of Da Nang and Bien Hoa airports.
Vietnam helped facilitate the US search for US soldiers missing in action during the Vietnam War and has so far returned the remains of more than 730 service members to the United States.
In March, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong had a phone conversation with President Joe Biden. Trong suggested that the two countries focus on economic, scientific and technological cooperation as the driving force of their relationship. Biden said Vietnam is an important U.S. partner and the United States supports an “independent, self-sufficient and prosperous” Vietnam.
In April, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Vietnam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the comprehensive partnership between the two nations.
During the Blinken reception, Secretary General Trong said recent positive developments in the two countries’ increasingly close and mutually beneficial relationship would be the basis for continuing to elevate the relationship to new heights.
