Despite being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic-trade cooperation between Vietnam and Poland continues to maintain a strong growth momentum, two-way trade over $2.5 billion in 2021 and 2022 are both high.

On the afternoon of March 16, at a meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau on the occasion of his official visit to Vietnam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his belief that the visit would contribute to promoting the traditional friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

The goodwill between Vietnam and Poland is growing more and more in many fields. The Vietnamese government always attaches great importance to and wishes to strengthen multifaceted cooperation with Poland, a traditional partner and friend in the Middle East.

Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau expressed his impression of Vietnam’s socio-economic development achievements, and affirmed that Poland wishes to further promote cooperation with Vietnam, an important partner. of Poland in Southeast Asia.

Discussing bilateral relations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested the two sides increase the exchange of delegations at all levels, especially high-level, as well as between ministries, branches and localities of the two countries to enhance political trust. and mutual understanding, creating a foundation to promote and expand bilateral cooperation in all fields.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated the fact that Poland has always been Vietnam’s largest trading partner in the Middle East for many years. Despite being affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, economic-trade cooperation between the two countries continues to maintain a strong growth momentum, two-way trade turnover in 2021 and 2022 are both high, over 2 years.

The Prime Minister asked Poland to create favorable conditions for Vietnam’s agricultural, forestry and fishery products to be present more and more on the Polish market; encouraging Polish businesses to step up investment in the fields of pharmaceuticals, food processing, manufacturing industry…

On this occasion, the Prime Minister proposed that Poland soon ratify the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) to facilitate equal and mutually beneficial investment cooperation between the two countries; promote the European Commission (EC) to soon remove the IUU yellow card for Vietnamese seafood products, meet the interests of Polish and EU consumers, as well as ensure livelihoods for hundreds of thousands of workers in the Vietnamese fishing industry. 

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also discussed with Minister Zbigniew Rau about a number of measures to promote cooperation in the fields of education – training, culture – tourism, agriculture, science – technology…

Minister Zbigniew Rau pledged to promote Polish ministries and sectors to coordinate with the Vietnamese side to concretize the opinions of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, contributing to bringing the bilateral cooperation relationship into reality; At the same time, he expressed his desire to strengthen cooperation in areas where Poland has strengths such as: information technology, smart city, green technology, environmental protection…

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Polish Foreign Minister agreed that the two countries should strengthen cooperation in multilateral and regional forums. Regarding the East Sea issue, the two sides emphasized the importance of ensuring security, safety and freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea, as well as settling disputes by peaceful means on the basis of peace and harmony, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Source: Kinh te va Du bao