On behalf of the State and people of Vietnam, Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan warmly welcomed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s official visit to Vietnam after a phone conversation between the two sides in September 2021, marking an official visit. Nigeria’s highest visit to Vietnam since 2005. Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan believes that the visit will contribute to strengthening the good cooperation relationship between the two countries.
The Vice President congratulated the achievements that the Government and people of Nigeria have achieved over the past time in terms of political stability, socio-economic development, response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as consolidating their important position in the country. important in the region and in the world; believes that Nigeria will continue to achieve more great achievements in the implementation of the National Development Plan 2021-2025, contributing to the successful implementation of Agenda 2050, putting Nigeria in the top 20 economies. world.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo expressed his pleasure to visit Vietnam for the first time; Sincere thanks to the warm welcome that the Vietnamese side has given the delegation. The Vice President highly appreciated Vietnam’s comprehensive achievements in doi moi, integration, development and enhancement of the country’s position in regional and multilateral forums, believing that Vietnam will contribute effective in UN operations in peace building and development.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo welcomed the positive developments in the two countries’ relations, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the fields of politics, diplomacy, trade and investment. Not only deploying many high-level contacts (with two bilateral visits and phone talks between the leaders of the two countries), Vietnam and Nigeria have made efforts to bring the trade turnover over 500 million USD and become important trade partners in the region.
Leaders of the two countries also agreed on specific orientations to promote in-depth and effective bilateral cooperation.
In terms of politics-diplomacy, the two sides reaffirmed the importance of enhancing delegation exchanges and contacts at all levels across all channels of the Government, the National Assembly, ministries, branches, localities and people-to-people exchanges. to strengthen political trust and create new impetus for economic cooperation. The two sides agreed to continue to closely coordinate and support each other at multilateral forums, especially the United Nations. Vietnam and Nigeria are willing to act as a bridge for each other to establish relations with regional organizations such as the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) and ASEAN.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo affirmed their determination to strengthen economic cooperation and increase bilateral trade turnover commensurate with Nigeria’s potential and market size of over 200 million people and nearly 100 million people of Vietnam. The Vice President asked Nigeria to create favorable conditions for market access for Vietnamese agricultural products, seafood and consumer goods.
The two leaders also emphasized the importance of agricultural development in ensuring national and global food security, agreeing that the two countries have a lot of room to cooperate in this field under the bilateral or trilateral model. beside; expressed the desire to strengthen investment cooperation; promoting cooperation in digital economy, green transformation, energy, defense-security…
The two sides welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on defense cooperation within the framework of the visit, agreed to coordinate in speeding up the approval and effective implementation of the signed cooperation documents; promote the negotiation and signing of agreements on investment promotion and protection, avoidance of double taxation and other specialized cooperation documents in order to strengthen the legal framework and facilitate economic cooperation between the two countries. two countries.
The two sides also exchanged views on a number of international and regional issues of mutual concern and reached consensus on solving problems in the region and the world by peaceful means on the basis of respect for international law. . On this occasion, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo cordially invited Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan to pay an official visit to Nigeria. Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan proposed assigning the Foreign Ministry of the two sides to coordinate and arrange an appropriate time./.
