At the talks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his joy at meeting President Lula da Silva, a close and beloved friend of the country and people of Vietnam, for the 5th time; and thanked the Brazilian Government for giving the delegation a warm and sincere welcome, imbued with the spirit of friendship between two nations, though half a world apart, but with the same aspirations for independence, development and advancement.
The Prime Minister conveyed to President Lula da Silva and Brazilian leaders the sincere and affectionate regards of General Secretary To Lam, President Luong Cuong and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and affirmed that the President's visit to Vietnam four months ago was a beautiful memory and left a deep impression on the leaders and people of Vietnam.
The Prime Minister appreciated Brazil's growing role in promoting global agendas, believing that Brazil will continue to further promote its role in important multilateral mechanisms when holding the role of G20 Chair in 2024, BRICS Chair, COP 30 and Mercosur in 2025.
Welcoming Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to the BRICS Summit for the first time as a Partner country, the Brazilian President said that as host, Brazil wishes to further promote the voice of Southern countries in global governance mechanisms, focusing on sustainable and inclusive development in terms of economy, society and environment. President Lula da Silva highly appreciated Vietnam's role and responsible contribution in participating in solving global issues.
The Prime Minister thanked Brazil for supporting Vietnam to become a BRICS partner country; affirmed that Vietnam will participate in the Summit with the highest responsibility, affirming Vietnam's strong commitment and active contribution to the common efforts to promote peace, cooperation and development, and promote the role of Southern countries in global governance institutions; and at the same time expressed Vietnam's support and contribution to the success of BRICS during Brazil's presidency.
Regarding bilateral relations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the relationship between the two countries is developing very well; the agencies of both sides have recently actively implemented the Joint Statement on the State visit to Vietnam by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (March 2025) and the Action Plan to implement the Vietnam - Brazil Strategic Partnership for the period 2025-2030.
The two leaders agreed to continue to coordinate in implementing measures to strengthen bilateral relations commensurate with the framework of the Strategic Partnership, including maintaining high-level contacts and delegation exchanges; enhancing political trust; and effectively coordinating the implementation of important agreements that have been reached.
The two leaders also agreed to promote cooperation in the fields of defense and security, including defense trade, technology transfer, promoting science and technology cooperation, developing high-quality human resources, mineral exploitation and trade, ethanol and biomass energy, digital transformation, semiconductors and artificial intelligence, and justice.
The two sides agreed to continue promoting negotiations to sign cooperation documents in the fields of investment protection, double taxation avoidance and visa facilitation between citizens of the two countries.
The two leaders expressed their satisfaction with the very positive and concrete results in opening the agricultural markets of the two countries. On this occasion, Brazil exported the first batch of beef to Vietnam and Vietnam exported tra - basa fish and tilapia to Brazil, contributing to enhancing the effectiveness of economic and trade cooperation, bringing practical benefits to the people and businesses of the two countries.
Brazil affirmed its willingness to import more seafood and rice from Vietnam. At the request of the Prime Minister, the two sides agreed to sign an agreement on ensuring stable and long-term food security for Brazil, in which Vietnam will export rice to stabilize food for Brazil.
The two leaders also agreed to promote cooperation in the coffee industry, promote the formation of a coffee production and export alliance, research and build a coffee trading floor, build a common coffee brand and elevate the coffee drinking culture associated with the cultures of the two nations.
The two sides agreed to promote a new direction of cooperation, which is to invest in the production and processing of agricultural products locally to serve the two countries' markets and export to other countries, promoting the strengths of each country, optimizing costs and harmonizing benefits.
To strongly promote trade between the two countries, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the President of Brazil to support the early conclusion of the FTA negotiations between Vietnam and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) in the last 6 months of 2025 during Brazil's term as MERCOSUR chair, as well as the FTA between Vietnam and Brazil. The President of Brazil affirmed his support for the Prime Minister's proposal; agreed that the two Ministers of Industry and Trade need to immediately discuss and closely coordinate with MERCOSUR members.
The two leaders agreed to direct the Ministers to immediately implement the specific results of the talks to promptly concretize and bring practical benefits to businesses of the two countries, especially in promoting market opening for goods, agricultural products, and seafood in the context of complicated global trade developments today.
The two sides agreed to continue encouraging people-to-people and youth exchanges between the two countries, promoting peace, solidarity and friendship through activities such as sports cooperation and academic exchanges; and creating conditions for the Vietnamese and Brazilian communities to integrate and contribute more to each country.
Discussing international and regional issues, the two leaders said it is necessary to continue to promote coordination and cooperation on global governance issues, United Nations reform, poverty reduction, and climate change response; agreed that the two sides should continue to strengthen mutual support at international and regional forums, especially at the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Non-Aligned Movement, South-South cooperation, and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
The two sides affirmed the importance of maintaining peace, stability, security, freedom of navigation and aviation in sea areas, including the East Sea, on the basis of respecting the interests of coastal countries, in accordance with international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
On this occasion, the Prime Minister conveyed President Luong Cuong's invitation to the President of Brazil to attend the signing ceremony of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi in October 2025.
Immediately after the talks, the Prime Minister and the President of Brazil witnessed the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in science and technology, innovation and digital transformation; the announcement ceremony of the first export shipment of tra and basa fish and tilapia from Vietnam to Brazil and the announcement ceremony of the first export shipment of Brazilian beef to Vietnam.
The two leaders happily emphasized that although they had met and held talks many times, each meeting had very specific, effective and practical results and new products. Following previous talks, this meeting was very successful with specific results in various fields, bringing practical benefits to both countries, especially promoting the export of Vietnamese agricultural and aquatic products to the very important market of more than 200 million people in the South American region.
According to VGP
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