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At the talks, General Secretary and President To Lam and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon agreed to continue strengthening political trust and comprehensively develop relations between the two countries. Download General Secretary and President To Lam and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon pose for a photo together - Photo: TTXVN Within the framework of the State visit to New Zealand, on the morning of August 13 (local time), in Auckland city, General Secretary and President To Lam held talks with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Warmly welcoming General Secretary and President To Lam and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation on the State visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon emphasized the visit is an important milestone in strengthening relations between the two countries over the past half century; Affirmed that Vietnam is a very important partner of New Zealand and expressed his impression of the outstanding achievements that Vietnam has achieved in recent times, under the leadership of General Secretary and President To Lam, becoming one of the countries with the leading economic growth rates in the region and in the world. General Secretary and President To Lam expressed his pleasure to meet Prime Minister Christopher Luxon again; congratulated New Zealand on its important achievements in building and developing the country towards more prosperity and dynamism, increasingly improving peoples lives. General Secretary and President To Lam affirmed that Vietnam always values the traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation with New Zealand; We are pleased to see that the Vietnam-New Zealand relationship has achieved important progress in recent times, especially that the two countries have upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations (1975-2025). Download General Secretary and President To Lam holds official talks with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon - Photo: VNA On this occasion, General Secretary and President To Lam also conveyed Prime Minister Le Minh Hungs greetings to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. The two leaders informed each other about the development situation of each country. Regarding bilateral relations, both sides highly appreciate the trusting development of Vietnam-New Zealand political relations and the good feelings between the two peoples, which are the foundation for the two countries to strengthen bilateral cooperation in all fields, for the benefit of the two peoples, for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world. General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized that the upgrade of the two countries relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations (2025) has opened up opportunities to deepen cooperation in all fields, bringing bilateral relations to more substantive and closer development and bringing more practical benefits to the people of the two countries. At the meeting, the two leaders agreed to continue strengthening political trust and comprehensively developing the two countries relationship. through increasing exchanges and contacts at high levels and at all levels, across the Party, State, National Assembly and people-to-people channels, thereby effectively promoting policy exchange mechanisms. General Secretary and President To Lam proposed that the two sides need to strengthen coordination, review and effectively deploy the Action Program to implement the Vietnam-New Zealand Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for the period 2025-2030. The two sides agreed to bring defense and security cooperation forward. into substance and effectiveness, especially maritime security cooperation, naval ship exchanges, expanding cooperation in cyber security, military medicine...; Research and establish a direct contact mechanism or hotline for transnational crime cases; accelerate negotiations, aiming to establish a mechanism and sign a bilateral cooperation agreement. Download General Secretary and President To Lam spoke at the official talks with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon - Photo: VNA Affirming that the two countries economies are highly complementary, the two sides emphasized that trade-investment cooperation is a very important pillar of cooperation, with a lot of potential, especially in agricultural, fishery and seafood trade. The two sides agreed to expand the scale of economic and trade cooperation, effectively taking advantage of free trade agreements that the two countries are participating in. Parties such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA), promote trade facilitation, open markets for the two countries strong agricultural products, reduce technical barriers, increase exchanges on quality standards, quarantine, food safety and electronic certification, creating conditions for businesses from both countries to invest in the market. each others markets. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon affirmed that New Zealand will continue to strongly promote cooperation in the field of trade and investment, thereby creating favorable conditions for businesses of the two countries to have opportunities to cooperate and invest in each other. Appreciating the practical and effective support of the New Zealand Government for Vietnam over the past many years, especially in the fields of agriculture and environment, General Secretary and PresidentTo Lam expressed his desire to continue accompanying in building green agriculture, low emissions, adapting to climate change, ensuring food security and increasing added value for agricultural products; building typical cooperation models on sustainable ag
