Assistant to the Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet and Deputy Managing Director for Asia and Pacific of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Paola Pampaloni co-chaired the event, which was held on the occasion of Vietnam and the E.U. celebrating a decade of signing the PCA (June, 2012 – 2022).

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Assistant to the Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet co-chairs the meeting.

The sides discussed recent notable situations and a number of key policy orientations for socio-economic development and international collaboration in their respective areas.

Lauding the bilateral ties’ progress despite COVID-19, particularly in trade-investment and pandemic-prevention cooperation, they agreed to further strengthen and expand join works during their recovery phase in such prioritized sectors as trade-investment, science-technology, green transition, digital transformation, innovation, agriculture and security-defense.

They also discussed the promotion of cooperation at multilateral forums like the U.N. and the Asia-Europe Forum (ASEM) as well as the frameworks of the Mekong sub-region cooperation and of the ASEAN – E.U. strategic partnership.

Source: VNA