Hanoi (VNA) –  The Vietnam-Germany strategic partnership isgrowing across various fields, and there is room for both sides to furtherbolster the ties with many new opportunities, Vietnamese Ambassador toGermany Vu Quang Minh has said.

Speaking with Vietnam News Agency on April 7 afterpresenting his credentials, the diplomat pointed out that duringtheir telephone talks on March 31, Vietnamese General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong and German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz agreed to work harder together tofurther promote bilateral trust and cooperation in all fields, which is also a common wish of leaders and peoples of both sides.

Regarding bilateral partnership in politics, diplomacy,security-defence, Minh expressed his belief that the friendly and trustfulrelationship between the two countries will continue to be reinforced andpromoted to become more practical and comprehensive.

He said that in the time to come, the two sides will work togetherto complete and implement a strategic plan of action for the 2022-2024 period,while increasing delegation exchanges after two years of interruption due to the COVID-19, and boosting the efficiency of consultation and cooperationmechanisms such as the strategic partnership at the deputy Foreign Ministerlevel, the Joint Committee on economic cooperation, and governmental-level consultationson development cooperation, and dialogue on law-governed state.

The two countries will further strengthen parliamentariancooperation in both bilateral and multilateral aspects, while promoting regulardialogues between the Communist Party of Vietnam and Germany’s ruling and politicalparties, he said.

The diplomat expressed his hope that Germany will play anincreasingly important role in supporting and promoting sustainable development,prosperity, peace and stability as well as the upholding of international lawin Asia-Pacific region and Southeast Asia, Mekong and East Sea inparticular.

Ambassador Minh said that in the time to come, theVietnamese Embassy will continue to conduct activities to connect and supportthe business communities of both sides to make full use of the EU-Vietnam FreeTrade Agreement, creating a breakthrough in bilateral trade and investmentpartnership. It will also work with authorities of both sidesto speed up the ratification of the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement(EVIPA), while helping strengthen cooperation in areas of mutual interest suchas vocational training, research, energy, digital transformation, climate change,agricultural processing, and health care.

The ambassador said he hopes more Vietnamese students willhave chances to study in Germany, and that cultural and people-to-peopleexchange activities between the two countries will be increased and expanded,along with collaboration among localities.

The diplomat further said that more efforts will be made to form an organisation of the Vietnamese community in Germany for mutual support./.