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| Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang met Chinese Party General Secretary and State President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the 20th APEC summit. |
Sang affirmed that unceasingly strengthening and consolidating the Vietnam-China friendship relations is a consistent, long-term and strategic policy of the Vietnamese Party and State.
For his part, Hu said the Party, State and people of China attach great importance to the friendship with the Party, State and people of Vietnam.
The two stressed the great significance of unceasingly strengthening the political confidence, further deepening the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in the current situation.
Both leaders agreed on major orientations to promote the two countries’ relations in the coming time, including the exchange of visits and meetings between the two countries’ high-ranking leaders, the cooperation in economics-trade, the strengthening of the people-to-people exchange, the dissemination of information on friendship, and the close coordination at regional and international forums.
Regarding issues at sea, the two sides should be persistent in solving the East Sea issue satisfactorily through negotiations and dialogues, not let the issue negatively impact the stable development of the two countries’ bilateral relations.
Sang highlighted that while solving the East Sea issue, both sides need to strictly implement the agreement on fundamental principles guiding the settlement of the issues at the sea, and solve satisfactorily all disputes and arising issues through peaceful negotiations. The work must be based on international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), proceeding to the Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).
President Sang took this opportunity to wish the 18th Chinese Party Congress a success.
