19/11/2013
“I believe my visit to India will help lift the two countries’ strategic cooperation to a new height,” Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has told Indian news agency PTI.
In an interview granted to the agency ahead of his trip to the South Asian nation from November 19-22, the Vietnamese Party leader said he paid an official visit to India four years ago in his capacity as Chairman of the National Assembly.
He went on to say that the upcoming state visit will be a good chance for him to further understand India and deepen his previous impression of the country.
Regarding Vietnam-India bilateral ties, the Party chief said the two countries’ relations not only originated from cultural crossings and similarities in many fields but also from solidarity in the fight against colonialists for each country’s independence and the close friendship between their leaders, President Ho Chi Minh and Indian Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
The relations have further developed since the two countries established their diplomatic ties in 1972 and lifted their ties to a new height six years ago, he said.
Read more at Vietnamplus
Click here for updated South China Sea news
In the past few years, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) has been expanding its activities in the South China Sea in particular and the Indo-Pacific in general.
On July 5, a week before hosting the 2023 NATO Summit, Lithuania released its own Indo-Pacific Strategy, becoming the 6th European country to devise such document (after France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the Czech Republic, if not including the EU). A few observations could be made from a...
On the 7th anniversary of the final ruling rendered by the Arbitral Tribunal in the arbitration between the Philippines and China concerning the South China Sea (July 12, 2016 - July 12, 2023), some countries, including claimants and non-claimants, issued statements expressing their positions regarding...
On 28 April, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued its final Judgment on the dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, finally ending the dispute that had lasted for over three years. Both Mauritius...
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu officially visited Russia from April 15th to April 17th, 2023. The visit was closely monitored by the West due to their belief that the increasingly closer relationship between China and Russia, both politically and militarily, may result in China’s decision to provide...
---Copy.png&w=200)
