Pilipinas, Vietnam nagkasundo na palakasin ang ugnayan

Labuan Bajo, Indonesia – Nagkasundo sina Pangulong Marcos Jr. at  Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh na palawakin at palakasin pa ang partnership sa ibat ibang larangan. Sa bilateral meeting nina Pangulong Marcos at Pham, tutukan ng mga ito ang kooperasyon sa  trade and investment, tourism, agriculture,  defense at security. Hindi maikakaila ayon sa Pangulo na lumalakas ang ugnayan ng Pilipinas at Vietnam lalo na sa produktong agrikultura na mahalaga sa food supply. “I think that the market is ripe for continued development in the areas of course as I mention, in agriculture, transfer of technologies for climate change, the different areas that we have been looking at also at specific products that Vietnam has been successful at,” sabi ng Pangulo kay Prime Minister Pham. Sabi pa ng Pangulo, palalakasin din ang turismo na aniyay mahalaga sa ekonomiya ng Pilipinas at aniya  mahalagang partner  ang Vietnam sa turismo matapos padapain sa pandemya sa COVID-19. “So I think that this is an important area to… for us to develop stronger relations. Because that is the way that we will derive strength from each other, from ASEAN, from our member states, from also our agreements that we make between the two countries,” pahayag ng Pangulo. “I think is something that we, the Philippines, are ready to initiate and we will after this start to make contact especially between our foreign service and eventually maybe even with our military leaders,” dagdag ng Pangulo. Nangako naman si  Prime Minister Pham na makikipagtulungan sa Pilipinas para maitaguyod ang ugnayan ng dalawang bansa. “When it comes to products that we can afford to provide a long term strategic supply to the Philippines to continue to try to do so by tasking with the ministries and agencies to work on said matters because we do have great empathy with sympathy for the Philippines in the natural disaster that they often have to come across,” pahayag ni Prime Minister Pham.