Vietnam gives top priority to strengthening relations with Hungary

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that Vietnam always attaches importance to strengthening relations with traditional friends in the Central and Eastern European region, of which Hungary is a top priority.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with Hungarian President Sulyok Tamas. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

On the morning of May 29, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with Hungarian President Sulyok Tamas, who is on an official visit to Vietnam from May 27-29.

At the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh warmly welcomed President Sulyok Tamas and the high-ranking delegation of the Hungarian State on an official visit to Vietnam, emphasizing the special significance of the visit in the context of the two countries celebrating the 75th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations (1950-2025) and Vietnam celebrating the 80th anniversary of its founding.

The Prime Minister recalled the impressions and good results of his official visit to Hungary in January 2024; he believed that President Sulyok Tamas's visit to Vietnam this time would create a new impetus to promote the Vietnam-Hungary Comprehensive Partnership to develop strongly in all fields, for the benefit of the people of the two countries, for peace, stability, solidarity, cooperation and sustainable development in the region and the world.

The Prime Minister affirmed that Vietnam will never forget the valuable support and assistance that Hungary has given Vietnam in the past struggle for independence and national reunification and in the current national construction and development; thanked Hungary for being the country that committed to providing the most preferential credit to Vietnam in the Central and Eastern Europe region with 500 million USD; and during the most difficult period of the COVID-19 pandemic, it provided vaccines to help Vietnam recover its economy soon.

The Prime Minister emphasized that in implementing the foreign policy of peace, independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralization of international relations, being a friend, a reliable partner and a responsible member of the international community, Vietnam always attaches importance to strengthening relations with traditional friends in the Central and Eastern European region, of which Hungary is a top priority.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at a meeting with Hungarian President Sulyok Tamas. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

In an atmosphere of friendship and trust, the Prime Minister shared that Vietnam, from a country devastated by war, besieged, embargoed and facing many difficulties, has risen to develop with many outstanding socio-economic achievements.

GDP scale reached 473 billion USD in 2024, per capita income approached the world's high average, happiness index increased 11 places in 2024 and increased 8 places this year. Vietnam has established diplomatic relations with 194 countries, participated in 17 FTAs connecting with 60 leading economies in the world.

The Prime Minister shared about Vietnam's major strategic orientations, including three pillars: building socialist democracy, a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people, and a socialist-oriented market economy; implementing three strategic breakthroughs in perfecting institutions, developing infrastructure and high-quality human resources; developing an independent, self-reliant economy based on science, technology and innovation, developing the private economic sector, perfecting and streamlining the organizational apparatus, promoting deep international integration with the goal of becoming a high-income developed country by 2045.

President Sulyok Tamas expressed his pleasure in his official visit to Vietnam; admired Vietnam’s great and historic achievements after nearly 40 years of renovation; highly appreciated Vietnam’s increasingly high role and position in the region and the international arena; and believed that the path Vietnam is taking is completely correct.

The President affirmed that Vietnam is always Hungary's leading important partner in ASEAN.

Hungarian President Sulyok Tamas speaks at a meeting with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

The President fully agreed with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's proposal on six groups of cooperation measures that need to be strengthened to further deepen the bilateral relationship, including:

Strengthen political trust through continuing to promote delegation exchanges, thereby promoting cooperation in various fields; in the context of complicated developments in the world, the two sides need to continue to unite, closely coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums, support the stance of resolving disputes by peaceful means, on the basis of respect for international law, to consolidate a peaceful and stable environment for development in each region and the world;

Strengthen the pillar of trade and investment cooperation in bilateral relations, soon convene the Joint Committee on economic cooperation between the two countries, strive to soon achieve a trade turnover of 2 billion USD;

Strengthen development cooperation between the two countries, propose and effectively implement projects using preferential credit from the Hungarian Government for Vietnam;

Strengthening educational cooperation is a traditional area of cooperation between the two countries, especially in the fields of nuclear energy, electricity, pharmaceuticals, tourism, climate change...;

Strengthening cooperation on labor, one of the areas with great potential for complementarity between the two sides;

Strengthen cultural, tourism and people-to-people cooperation, focusing on coordinating activities to celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 2025.

The Hungarian President affirmed that he will urge the remaining European Union (EU) countries to soon ratify the Vietnam-EU Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), and support and urge the European Commission (EC) to soon remove the "IUU yellow card" for Vietnam's seafood exports.

The two sides agreed to continue to effectively implement agreements between the two countries, promote cooperation in traditional areas such as trade-investment, science-technology, education-training, national defense-security, medicine-pharmaceuticals, culture-tourism and people-to-people exchange, and at the same time expand cooperation to areas where both sides have strengths and complementary needs such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, labor, etc.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked and asked Hungarian authorities at all levels to continue creating favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community in Hungary to integrate more deeply into the host society, make positive contributions to the local socio-economy, and promote their important role as a bridge for the traditional friendship between the two countries.

The two leaders affirmed that Vietnamese students who have studied in Hungary are valuable resources for developing relations between the two countries./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/viet-nam-uu-tien-hang-dau-tang-cuong-quan-he-voi-hungary-post1041382.vnp