HANOI: Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here that China is ready to join hands with Vietnam to maintain the momentum of healthy, stable and comprehensive development of relations between the two countries.
At a meeting with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, Wang said under the guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries, the China-Vietnam relations have been moving forward despite profound changes in international situation and those brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
China has given priority to the development of ties with Vietnam in its neighborhood diplomacy, Wang said, promising China’s firm support for the new leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), as well as for the Vietnamese people in their efforts to achieve Vietnam’s “two centenary goals.”
In the face of transformations rarely seen in a century, the two sides should stick to their shared ideals and beliefs as so to push forward their respective socialist cause, he added. China is willing to maintain high-level exchanges and exchanges at all levels with Vietnam in a flexible way amid the pandemic, and will spare no effort to help Vietnam contain the COVID-19 outbreak, he said. – Agencies
