Vietnam and Singapore upgrade relations to comprehensive strategic partners

On the morning of March 12, on the Singapore Nationwide Meeting’s home, the Prime Minister and Basic Secretary of the Singapore Individuals’s Motion (PAP) Lawrence Wong chaired the ceremony to welcome Basic Secretary To Lam.

After the welcoming ceremony, Basic Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong had a slim assembly and talks.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong affirmed that the go to of Basic Secretary To Lam was an essential milestone within the relationship between the 2 international locations.

Basic Secretary To Lam expressed his rejoice in Singapore within the new place when the 2 international locations had many essential occasions, together with the eightieth anniversary of Vietnam Nationwide Day and 60 years of Nationwide Day Singapore.

The go to made an essential contribution to strengthening friendship, mutual understanding, opening up nice alternatives for cooperation, deepening and elevating the 2 international locations to new heights …

The Basic Secretary affirmed that Vietnam all the time attaches nice significance to and wishes to advertise friendship and multi -faceted cooperation with Singapore.

Picture: VNA

The Basic Secretary shared the achievements of Vietnam within the renovation, efforts to advertise financial restructuring related to innovation of progress, digital transformation and sustainable improvement; Reform the executive equipment, streamlining, lowering the focal factors and reforming administrative procedures in the direction of a state system working, successfully and successfully.

The 2 leaders evaluation the excellent achievements in cooperation between the 2 international locations, particularly when it comes to financial system – commerce – funding, with bilateral commerce turnover of over 9 billion USD in 2024.

Singapore is at present the second largest funding companion in Vietnam with a complete accrued funding of 80 billion USD, of which Vietnam – Singapore Industrial Zones (VSIP) are thought of as a profitable image of cooperation.

Basic Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong browse the consideration crew. Picture: VNA

The 2 sides additionally recorded optimistic progress in nationwide protection and safety cooperation, schooling – coaching, science – expertise, tourism, labor and folks’s trade.

On the idea of nice achievements for greater than 5 a long time since establishing diplomatic relations in 1973, two leaders agreed to improve the 2 international locations’ relations to a complete strategic companion.

It is a historic milestone in bilateral relations, opening a brand new chapter with an extended and extra complete imaginative and prescient.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong shared that this was the primary complete strategic partnership that Singapore established with A ASEAN.

The 2 sides set out giant instructions and assign related businesses, ministries and branches to develop motion packages to implement complete strategic partnerships and usher in important and efficient improvement relations.

Specifically, specializing in strengthening political belief by means of exchanging delegations in any respect ranges, particularly excessive -level; develop and deeply deepen financial, commerce and funding cooperation; promote cooperation on digital transformation, innovation, inexperienced financial system, clear vitality; Strengthen nationwide protection – safety, tradition, schooling, tourism and folks’s trade.

The Basic Secretary urged that Singapore develop VSIP 2.0 community within the course of innovation, low carbon emissions, improve cooperation within the discipline of digital transformation and rising applied sciences.

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong desires to advertise cooperation with Vietnam within the improvement of seaports and maritime infrastructure by means of digital transformation. Singapore will proceed to help Vietnam to enhance the standard of human assets, particularly the strategic officers and successfully implement the memorandum of memorandum of Vietnam – Singapore Innovation and Innovation.

He additionally needs to ship Singapore college students to Vietnam to review, analysis and promote cultural exchanges, sports activities and trade of younger generations to reinforce the understanding and friendship between the folks of the 2 international locations.

The 2 leaders witnessed the signing ceremony of cooperative paperwork within the discipline of prevention and combat in opposition to transnational crimes, monetary innovation, wind commerce, digital conversion … Picture: VNA

The 2 international locations agreed to strengthen ASEAN solidarity, paying acceptable to the sustainable improvement of sub -region within the area, together with the Mekong sub -region, thereby contributing positively to ASEAN self -resilience, prosperity and sustainable improvement, selling the central function within the area.

The 2 leaders additionally affirmed their willpower to construct the East Sea into Hoa Binh Sea, cooperating and creating, together with ASEAN international locations to advertise negotiations on the Code of Conduct within the South China Sea (COC) in truth, in accordance with worldwide regulation, particularly the United Nations Conference on the Legislation of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982.

Talking to the press after the talks, Basic Secretary To Lam stated that the brand new relationship will contribute to additional strengthening political reliability, opening a broader and deeper cooperation house, bringing Vietnam -Singapore cooperation to turn out to be a mannequin in worldwide relations within the new interval …

The Basic Secretary has emphasised that since Vietnam joined ASEAN, Singapore has all the time been an essential financial companion, accompanied with Vietnam all through the reform, opening and improvement. Vietnam is proud to have a complete buddy and strategic companion, Singapore.

Vietnam has a complete strategic partnership with 12 international locations, together with: China (Could 2008), Russian Federation (July 2012), India (September 2016), South Korea (12/2022), USA (9/2023), Japan (11/2023), Australia (3/2024), France (10/2024), Malaysia (11/2024), New Zealand (2/2025), Indonesia and Singapore (3/2025)