PM receives new DPRK Ambassador

September 22,nhận định everton vs mu 2024 - 07:09 Your browser does not support the audio element. Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on September 21 received Ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Sung Guk.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính and Ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Ri Sung Guk. VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI - Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on September 21 received Ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Sung Guk.

Chính congratulated Ri on his appointment and spoke highly of the DPRK for sending an experienced diplomat to work in Việt Nam, which shows the importance that the DPRK attaches to its cooperative relationship with the country.

He affirmed that relevant Vietnamese agencies would cooperate closely to support the diplomat in fulfilling his tasks.

The PM said he believed that with his rich experience, Ambassador Ri would actively contribute to maintaining and promoting the traditional friendship between the two countries in the coming time.

Chính also expressed his delight at the two countries’ traditional friendship and cooperation established and nurtured by President Hồ Chí Minh and President Kim Il Sung, and continuously preserved, inherited, and promoted by generations of leaders and people of the two countries.

In that spirit, Chính suggested that during his term, the diplomat coordinate with relevant Vietnamese agencies to continue enhancing political trust and mutual understanding through the exchange of delegations at all levels and between ministries, departments and sectors of the two countries; jointly implementing activities to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 2025; promoting economic cooperation between the two countries on the basis of compliance with international law and in accordance with the interests of the two countries.

Chính also suggested the two sides soon resume the meeting mechanism of the Việt Nam-DPRK Intergovernmental Committee on economic, scientific and technological cooperation chaired by Việt Nam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and the DPRK’s Ministry of External Economic Relations, and actively expand exchanges and cooperation in the fields of culture, arts, sports, and people-to-people exchanges.

For his part, Ambassador Ri said he was greatly impressed by Việt Nam's important achievements in many fields in recent years, especially those relating to post-pandemic socio-economic recovery and development as well as its expanding foreign relations which contribute to enhancing Việt Nam's position in the international arena.

The diplomat said he believed that under the leadership of the Communist Party of Việt Nam, the country would successfully achieve the goal of becoming a high-income developed country by 2045.

He affirmed that continuing to promote the development of bilateral relations with Việt Nam was a consistent stance of the Party and State of the DPRK.

The diplomat pledged that during his term in Việt Nam, he would make efforts to contribute to promoting the development of the traditional friendship between the two countries. VNS

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