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| Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Hang |
* Reporter: Could you please tell us, on a multilateral level, what impressive results has the Prime Minister 's working trip achieved?
* Deputy Minister NGUYEN MINH HANG : At the 2025 BRICS Summit (an international organization including member countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made many important proposals, in line with the concerns and interests of developing countries, including healthcare, environmental protection, climate change response, improving resilience to pandemics, as well as proposals in line with global concerns such as reforming international financial institutions; promoting South-South economic linkages (economic cooperation between developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere); applying technology and artificial intelligence to serve sustainable development; ensuring equitable access to financial, technological and medical resources for developing countries.
Leaders of countries and international organizations highly appreciated Vietnam's proposals as well as its proactiveness and responsibility in contributing to solidarity, enhancing cooperation and dialogue to address challenges of the international community.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also had many meetings and talks with leaders of BRICS member countries and partners, developing countries, and major international organizations; thereby opening up many new cooperation directions, contributing to promoting Vietnam's relations with development partners in a practical, effective and in-depth manner, contributing to peace , stability, and prosperity in the region and the world.
* On the bilateral level, how has the friendly relationship between Vietnam and Brazil made positive progress after the Prime Minister's visit, Mr. Deputy Minister?
* During the working trip, the two sides agreed on major orientations in the relationship, especially in economics, trade and investment. If more than a decade ago, in 2011, the trade turnover between the two countries only reached 1.5 billion USD, now this figure has reached nearly 8 billion USD, accounting for nearly 35% of Vietnam's total turnover with the Latin American region. Brazil is currently Vietnam's largest trade partner in this important region.
This shows that the two countries need to continue to have strategic cooperation measures to maintain and further enhance growth momentum, thereby reflecting the strategic complementarity between the two economies in particular and the region in general. On this occasion, the President of Brazil affirmed his support for Vietnam to soon conclude negotiations on the FTA (free trade agreement) between Vietnam and the MERCOSUR bloc (South American market community) in 2025 as well as the FTA between Vietnam and Brazil.
One of the highlights of the working trip was agricultural cooperation. The two sides agreed to create more favorable conditions for people of the two countries as well as the region to access and use quality agricultural products of businesses of the two countries.
The two sides affirmed to promote cooperation in the coffee industry, promote the formation of a coffee production and export alliance, towards building a common coffee brand and enhancing the coffee enjoyment culture associated with the culture of the two nations. At the same time, with the motto of "optimizing costs, harmonizing benefits", investing in the production and processing of agricultural products on the spot is also one of the new directions of cooperation for consumption in the two markets and export to other countries.
On this occasion, the two countries announced the first export shipment of tra and basa fish and tilapia from Vietnam to Brazil and the first export shipment of beef from Brazil to Vietnam. These are agricultural products that the two sides have “co-shaped, committed to and implemented”, starting the opening of the market and the export of other agricultural and aquatic products in the coming time.
Other fields such as defense - security, science - technology , high-quality human resource development, mineral exploitation and trade, digital transformation, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, etc. also have new changes in line with the development orientation of each country.
The two sides also signed many documents and cooperation agreements, notably memorandums of understanding on science and technology cooperation, innovation and digital transformation, and many cooperation agreements between representatives of leading corporations and enterprises of the two countries with a value of up to hundreds of millions of USD.
* According to the Deputy Minister, what measures will Vietnam implement to materialize the results of the working trip?
To concretize the results of the visit, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directed relevant ministries, branches and localities to immediately begin implementing a number of key tasks.
Accordingly, in relations with Brazil, ministries, sectors and localities need to continue to give high priority to implementing the Vietnam - Brazil Joint Statement and the Action Plan to implement the Strategic Partnership agreed upon by the two countries' senior leaders in March 2025.
In addition to traditional areas of cooperation, agriculture will be the focus of cooperation in the coming time. Vietnamese ministries, sectors, localities and enterprises will proactively work with Brazilian partners to review and resolve difficulties and obstacles to further open the market for each other's goods and agricultural products.
At the same time, the two sides will soon complete the signing of the Vietnam - Brazil FTA, promote the signing of the Agreement on ensuring stable and long-term food security for Brazil, cooperation documents in the field of investment protection, double taxation avoidance and visa facilitation between the two countries. Vietnam will also work with other members to urgently negotiate and soon sign a free trade agreement between Vietnam and MECOSUR.
According to sgpp.org.vn
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