PRESIDENT U Win Myint and First Lady Daw Cho Cho hosted a luncheon
in honor of a Viet Nam friendship delegation led by Prime Minister Mr.
Nguyen Xuan Phuc of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at the
Presidential Palace yesterday noon.
Present at the luncheon
along with President U Win Myint and First Lady Daw Cho Cho were State
Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Vice President U Myint Swe and wife Daw
Khin Thet Htay, Vice President U Henry Van Thio and wife Dr. Shwe
Hlwan, Union Ministers, Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman, Central Bank of
Myanmar Governor, Deputy Minister for Transport and Communications,
Myanmar Ambassador to Viet Nam and officials.
At the luncheon
President U Win Myint and Prime Minister Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc of the
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam delivered messages of greetings.
In his speech President U Win Myint said Myanmar-Viet Nam friendship and
cooperation started during the period of striving for independence.
Through friendship and close cooperation between the two governments,
efforts were being made toward development and flourishing of bilateral
understanding and trust. Therefore, it was a pleasure to state that at
the moment the bilateral friendship and cooperation between the two
countries has been strengthened further than the past periods.
Myanmar and Viet Nam were member countries in many regional and
international organizations. The two countries were supporting and
assisting one another in organizations like ASEAN, GMS, CLMV and UN.
He said the Union government has been serving the country for more than
three years and during this period much progress has been achieved. At
the same time, many obstacles were also encountered. He firmly believed
these could be overcome with the understanding and support of regional
and international friends.
He wish to express his deep
appreciation to the government and people of Viet Nam on behalf of the
government and the people of Myanmar for the support, understanding and
for standing with Myanmar in the regional and international fronts
throughout Myanmar’s efforts towards socio-economic development.
Starting from 1975 when diplomatic relation was established between the
two countries, a true friendly relationship, close cooperation and
mutual understandings were established and maintained. The two countries
had similar traditions and cultures and were members of ASEAN. As such,
the present bilateral cooperation is believed to develop and
strengthen.
At the moment, Viet Nam had become Asia’s most
transparent and economically fastest developing country. This
accomplishment was commended with pride and happiness.
Cooperation in bilateral trade and investment sectors were achieving
momentum. It was a pleasure that Viet Nam had become Myanmar’s ninth
biggest trading partner country and the seventh biggest investing
country in Myanmar. The discussions between the two countries this
morning on all round cooperation in many sectors for the benefit of the
two countries and its people was also a matter of great satisfaction.
With regard to friendly relations on all round cooperation established
in 2017, it was his full and firm belief that bilateral relations and
cooperation would be further strengthened.
He said that the
Vietnamese Prime Minister’s first visit to Myanmar was a milestone in
the history of bilateral relations. The visit would significantly
support the implementation of bilateral all round cooperation and aims
of friendly relations.
In conclusion President U Win Myint
expressed his good wishes for the good health and well-being of the
Vietnamese Prime Minister and guests attending the luncheon. He
expressed his wish for Myanmar-Viet Nam friendship to flourish and
strengthen. He ended by saying that he wished to pray together with the
visiting Prime Minister for Viet Nam to continue to prosper and develop
and for the happiness of the Vietnamese people.
In his speech
Prime Minister Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc said Myanmar had a long history and
cultural heritages while possessing a beautiful and scenic land. It had
ancient pagodas constructed by great monarchs and kings as well as
having numerous architectural heritages.
Furthermore, it was a
country that produced good leaders like father of Myanmar’s independence
Bogyoke Aung San and Asia’s first UN Secretary General U Thant.
Ever since gaining independence in 1948 it had achieved good
development results. Taking opportunity of this moment, the President,
the country’s leaders and the Myanmar people are congratulated on
achieving such important and good results.
Under the outstanding
efforts, vision and leadership of the President and the State
Counsellor, Myanmar’s reform work processes and economic development
would achieve more success while possessing stability and prosperity.
As the two countries were Southeast Asia countries, they had many
similarities in history, culture and traditions. During the period of
striving for independence in the past to the present effort of national
defence and development, the two countries have been supporting one
another as well as cooperating closely together.
Even before
official diplomatic relations were established in 1975, friendship
between the two countries had developed on the firm foundation laid by
national leader Bogyoke Aung San and President Mr. Ho Chi Minh.
The two countries were same in eating rice as a staple food as well as
belief in Buddhism, cherishing freedom, peace and tranquillity. Direct
flight connection between the two countries had resulted in about
100,000 people from the two countries visiting one another. The majority
of the visitors were Buddhists who visited Shwedagon Pagoda, ancient
cultural heritage region of Bagan and economic cities of Yangon and
Mandalay.
In the year 2020, ceremonies will be held to
commemorate the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Myanmar-Viet
Nam diplomatic relations. During the past years, Myanmar-Viet Nam
relationship had developed with great momentum and it was a pleasure to
note that the relationship was upgraded to all round friendly
cooperation level in 2017.
In 2019 the bilateral trade reached
US$ 1.05 billion and compared to 2010, it was a 6.5 fold increase. In
2020, the bilateral trade already surpassed the target of US$ 1.5
billion. More than 220 Viet Nam businesses had entered the Myanmar
market and Viet Nam had become Myanmar’s seventh biggest investor
country. 18 Viet Nam projects implemented in Myanmar totals nearly US$
2.2 billion and the most obvious was a successful joint venture for
mutual benefit of Viet Nam’s communication company Viettel with
Myanmar’s joint venture company. The joint venture Mytel now had more
than 7 million subscribers making it the third biggest mobile service
provider. It was a pleasure to know that Mytel’s internet service was
upgraded to 5G level on August 5. Utilizing such high technology was an
opportunity to increase the development momentum during the fourth
industrial revolution era.
It was a pleasure and of a great
satisfaction to meet and discuss with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi in bilateral meeting and with President U Win Myint. It was firmly
believed that with the aims set by the leaders of the two countries,
cooperation of the people and firm decisions made, Myanmar-Viet Nam all
round cooperation and friendly relationship would strengthen on a new a
foundation and beneficial and effective progress and development would
continue.
In his toast the Vietnamese Prime Minister expressed
his wish for a beautiful future for the people of the two countries. He
also prayed for the prosperity and development of Myanmar and for the
people to be happy and in good health. He prayed for all round
cooperation and friendly relations between Myanmar-Viet Nam to be long
and strong. Lastly, he prayed for the good health and happiness of
President U Win Myint, the State Counsellor, and Myanmar leaders; after
this he prayed for the good health and happiness of all the guests
present at the luncheon.
Afterwards, President U Win Myint and
First Lady Daw Cho Cho, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Prime
Minister Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and
invited guests had lunch together.
After the luncheon President U
Win Myint presented Prime Minister Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc of the
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam with a photo album containing photographs
taken during the visit.
MNA
(Translated by Zaw Min)
PHOTO: MNA
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
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