Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet.

Reporter: Could you please tell us about the significance, results and highlights of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's working trip? Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet: After five days of continuous and effective activities, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese high-ranking delegation successfully concluded their working trip, achieving all the set goals and tasks. First of all, the World Climate Action Summit takes place in the context of climate change continuing to cause extremely serious impacts globally. The climate system is approaching the red line, while there is still a large gap between the commitments made by the Parties and the actions implemented on the ground. Therefore, this year's COP28 is considered the largest COP in history, with the participation of nearly 140 high-level leaders and about 90,000 delegates.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the opening ceremony of the World Climate Action Summit within the framework of COP28. Photo: VNA

In that context, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's direct participation in the conference is of great significance and is highly appreciated by the host country and the international community. The participation and contribution of the Vietnamese delegation, especially Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's speech at the World Climate Action Summit or chairing high-level multilateral events, has conveyed important messages about Vietnam's viewpoints and policies on socio-economic development and international integration set out in the documents of the 13th National Party Congress. This is also a concrete step contributing to the implementation of Directive 25 of the Secretariat on promoting and enhancing multilateral diplomacy until 2030 and Vietnam's major strategies, projects and plans on climate change response. The participation of the Prime Minister and the Vietnamese delegation at the conference has demonstrated the role, position and stature of the country after nearly 40 years of renovation. In front of international friends, we have highlighted Vietnam's responsibility and commitment to participating in addressing one of the biggest global challenges today, climate change. Specifically, by highlighting 12 major, comprehensive measures that Vietnam has implemented since COP26 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while ensuring energy autonomy and security, people's interests as well as economic development goals. Notably, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh announced the Resource Mobilization Plan for the implementation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), attracting great attention and commitment of support from countries and international organizations. The Vietnamese delegation also participated in a number of new multilateral cooperation initiatives to open up new and potential cooperation opportunities in the field of energy transition and green growth.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the World Climate Action Summit. Photo: VNA

For Türkiye and the UAE, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's visit takes place at a time of special significance, as Vietnam and Türkiye celebrate the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations (1978-2023), and Vietnam and the UAE celebrate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations (1993-2023). This is also a time when Vietnam and the two countries are making efforts to further strengthen bilateral relations and exploit their existing potential. Türkiye is currently the largest direct investor in Vietnam in the Middle East, with a total registered capital of about 1 billion USD. Meanwhile, the UAE is Vietnam's largest trading partner in the region, with two-way trade turnover estimated at 8.7 billion USD in 2022. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a busy schedule, conducting more than 20 activities in Türkiye and 30 activities in the UAE with substantive content and diverse forms, achieving very specific results in both bilateral and multilateral frameworks. Ministries, branches and localities also carried out dozens of important activities with partners in the two countries. For Turkey, this visit of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is a breakthrough in the relationship between the two countries. The Prime Minister had talks and meetings with the highest-ranking leaders, including the President, Vice President and Chairman of the National Assembly, and received ministers in charge of economy, finance, industry, technology and chairmen of large corporations and enterprises of Türkiye. The Prime Minister and Turkish leaders agreed on many important measures to enhance the effectiveness of cooperation between the two countries, including promoting the early opening of the Turkish Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, opening the door to key export items and agricultural products of each country, aiming to soon bring bilateral trade turnover to 4-5 billion USD in the near future.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: VNA

In particular, the two countries' senior leaders discussed for the first time the possibility of upgrading the relationship to a new partnership framework, creating conditions to deepen and effectively develop the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Turkey, including the initiation of negotiations on a free trade agreement between the two countries. This is a strong breakthrough in the cooperation mechanism, demonstrating the determination of the leaders of both sides in consolidating and strengthening the relationship between the two countries. Another special feature of the Prime Minister's official visit to Turkey is that for the first time, the two sides issued a Joint Statement outlining major and important orientations, as well as identifying specific areas to expand cooperation, aiming to upgrade the relationship to a new level in the coming time. In the UAE, following the meeting with the UAE President on the occasion of the ASEAN-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in October 2023, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with the Prime Minister and Vice President, Crown Prince of Dubai, received the UAE Minister of Human Resources, Director of the Abu Dhabi Energy Authority... UAE leaders affirmed their desire to promote friendly relations and multifaceted cooperation with Vietnam, especially in the fields of trade, investment, science-technology, and human resources development. The two sides agreed on a number of specific measures to further promote effective cooperation such as accelerating negotiations and early signing of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), soon increasing trade turnover to 10 billion USD in the coming years; as well as supporting Vietnam in developing the Halal industry, promoting cooperation in green growth, digital transformation, innovation, building financial centers, logistics, sports...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets with UAE Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Photo: VNA

The Prime Minister received many leaders of leading corporations and investment funds from Türkiye and the UAE, attended and spoke at business forums held with the participation of nearly 200 businesses in each country. During the discussion, Turkish and UAE businesses highly appreciated Vietnam's cooperation potential and investment and business attraction policies, affirming their desire for long-term commitment and expansion of investment and business activities in Vietnam. During the visit, Vietnamese ministries, branches, localities and businesses signed 31 important cooperation agreements with UAE, Turkish and international partners in the fields of security, agriculture, civil aviation, human resources, digital transformation, seaports, etc., contributing to perfecting the legal framework for future cooperation. Reporter: Could you please tell us about the partners' assessment of Vietnam's participation and contributions? Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet: Vietnam's messages, determination and strong actions have been welcomed and highly appreciated by the international community. Regarding the global issue of climate change, Vietnam reaffirms its efforts to join hands with the international community in responding to climate change. We not only demonstrate our commitments through words but also have very specific actions to implement those commitments. Within the framework of COP28, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made very important speeches at various forums, in which the main message sent to the international community was to turn commitments from previous conferences into specific actions. The Prime Minister also shared about what Vietnam has done to demonstrate that Vietnam is truly determined and resolutely implements actions effectively; At the same time, he emphasized the need for developed countries to support developing countries in terms of finance, technology, human resource training and governance capacity to have an effective and sustainable green transition, without sacrificing economic growth for this process.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the G77 and China Summit on climate change. Photo: VNA

At the meetings, the partners highly appreciated Vietnam's socio-economic development achievements, showing their respect for Vietnam's position, role and active voice in international cooperation to address the climate crisis. The countries also highly appreciated Vietnam's commitment and spirit of "saying is doing". Vietnam was repeatedly mentioned as a successful model that needs to be replicated in responding to climate change. Many countries affirmed that they will support and accompany Vietnam in energy transition and improving adaptation capacity, thereby contributing to promoting green growth efforts of Vietnam in particular and the international community in general.

Regarding the global issue of climate change, Vietnam reaffirms its efforts to join hands with the international community in responding to climate change. We not only demonstrate our commitment through words but also take very specific actions to implement those commitments. Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet

At the bilateral meetings, senior leaders of Türkiye and the UAE highly appreciated the visit and the practical and effective activities of the Prime Minister and the Vietnamese delegation; affirmed that they consider Vietnam a leading partner, holding a particularly important position in ASEAN and wished to promote friendly relations and multifaceted cooperation with Vietnam in all fields, especially trade, investment, science and technology, aviation, human resource development, etc. For partners in the Middle East, the Prime Minister's two visits to this region within two months sent a message about Vietnam's interest and priority in developing relations with these potential partners. The Middle East is both a market that can expand economic cooperation and export of Vietnamese goods, and a source of attracting huge investment capital from large corporations and investment funds. Proactively strengthening relations with countries in the Middle East is of practical significance in opening new markets, attracting investment and new resources to serve Vietnam's development in the coming time. Reporter: Thank you very much, Deputy Minister!

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