The two PMs underlined the need for both nations to closely cooperate in stepping up the implementation of reached agreements on defense and security, information and experience sharing and supporting Vietnam in English language training.
They concurred to expand cooperation in peacekeeping operations, task force, submarine rescue , search and rescue, natural disaster response, epidemic control, climate change adaptation, counter-terrorism, human trafficking.
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Both PMs said education was vital in bilateral ties and agreed to boost cooperation in this field in the years to come.
Dung lauded the Australian government’s continued development assistance to Vietnam, saying both countries had agreed to boost fruit exports and facilitate their businesses in the areas of construction, processing, tourism, and husbandry.
The two PMs agreed to deepen the Vietnam-Australia comprehensive partnership and assigned both countries’ ministry of foreign affairs to develop an action program between now and 2017.
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They underscored the importance of maintaining peace, stability, security, and aviation and navigation safety and freedom in the East Sea based on international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as well as fully implementing the DOC towards formulating a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).
Both sides applauded the rapid development of economic links between the two countries in which Australia has become the eighth largest trade partner of Vietnam with bilateral trade turnover jumping to US$6 billion in 2014 from US$5.1 billion in 2013.
Australia highlighted Vietnam as a potential market and wants to increase cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation in energy, telecommunication and technological transfer, the Australian PM told his guest.
Both sides agreed to foster effective cooperation in priotized areas of cooperation in agriculture, animal husbandry, processing, mining, education-training.
The two government leaders also consented to further boost cooperation in defense- security, as well as increasing the efficiency of cooperation in development cooperation, culture, education and tourism.
During the talks, they compared notes on regional and international issues of shared concern and agreed to work closely and effectively at regional and international forums such as ASEAN-Australia Cooperation, the East Asia Summit (EAS), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) and the United Nations, and offer mutual support in the negotiation and implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).
The Australian Prime Minister said Australia denounced unilateral actions to change the status quo in the region, adding that he hoped all disputes would be settled through peaceful measures and dialogue.
On the occasion, both sides releases a joint statement on strengthening the Vietnam-Australia comprehensive partnership and signed four other cooperation documents.
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The two countries’ ministries and sectors also inked a number of cooperative agreements in the areas of labor, Vietnam’s UN peacekeeping participation, addressing the lasting consequences of bombs and mines, and supplementing the Australia-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP).
The same day, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his wife attended a tree planting ceremony in Canberra.
