Jakarta (VNA) – Vietnamese Prime Minister PhamMinh Chinh met with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and BangladeshiPresident Mohammed Shahabuddin on the sidelines of the 43rd ASEAN Summit andRelated Summits in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 7.

At the meeting with PM Modi, PM Chinh once againcongratulated India on its historic successful launches of the Chandrayaan-3spacecraft to the moon and the Aditya-L1 spacecraft to study the sun as well asits recent economic, military and scientific - technological achievements; andsuccessful presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) and the Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO).

The two PMs reaffirmed the traditionalpartnership, close friendship, and similar strategic interests between their countrieswhile speaking highly of the increasingly practical and effective progress ofthe bilateral relations.

They shared the view that on the basis of thelong-standing relations and strong political trust, Vietnam and India shouldincrease high-level mutual visits and meetings and step up cooperation indifferent fields, especially such new areas as digital transformation, energytransition, and green and sustainable economic development to generate commonbenefits for the two countries' people.

They agreed to enhance security - defencecooperation, a pillar of the Vietnam - India comprehensive strategicpartnership. Given difficulties facing the global economy, they agreed toassign their countries’ ministries, sectors, and localities to cooperate closelyto help improve the strength of each economy, remove obstacles for enterprises,and facilitate bilateral trade.

Both leaders also concurred in assigning aviationagencies of Vietnam and India to consider licensing each other’s airlines toincrease direct flights between their big cities to meet people’s travel demand.

PM Modi acknowledged his Vietnamese counterpart’sproposals on signing a memorandum of understanding on e-commerce and anagreement on bilateral economic cooperation, and on minimising the impositionof trade barriers on each other’s goods.

The Indian PM also affirmed that he will encouragemajor enterprises of India to increase investment in Vietnam.

The two PMs also agreed that Vietnam and Indiawill continue coordination and mutual support at regional and internationalforums.

At the meeting with Bangladeshi PresidentShahabuddin, PM Chinh congratulated the South Asian country on its recentachievements, including becoming the world’s second biggest apparel exporter,and highly valued its efforts to green this industry.

The two leaders emphasised their countries’traditional friendship and political trust, nurtured by many generations ofVietnamese and Bangladeshi leaders and people. Based on that foundation andafter 50 years of diplomatic ties, the bilateral relations have been growingstrongly.

They agreed to boost high-level delegationexchanges between the two countries’ Parties, Governments, parliaments andpeople, and coordinate to prepare for the coming visit to Bangladesh byChairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue.

PM Chinh and President Shahabuddin said the twocountries will continue sharing experience in socio-economic development,foreign investment attraction and application of green production, especiallyin the textile - garment and leather footwear industries.

Both sides will actively encourage theirenterprises to partner with each other and increase investment, discuss theopening of more direct air routes, provide favourable visa conditions to fuelpeople-to-people exchanges and tourism cooperation, and foster collaboration inagriculture, fishery, transport, education - training, disaster management, andclimate change response, they added.

The Bangladeshi leader lauded the impressivedevelopment of trade and investment partnerships, including the four-fold surgein bilateral trade in 10 years.

He encouraged Vietnamese firms to invest inBangladesh and pledged to create conditions for Vietnam to increase the exportof its strong products to Bangladesh. He also vowed close coordination toguarantee food security and effectively implement the MoU on rice trading for2022 - 2027.

The two leaders affirmed that their countries willkeep active cooperation and mutual support at regional and internationalforums, especially the United Nations, and contribute to peace, stability,cooperation and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region./.