VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

After successfully conducting the 2014-2018 Action-Plan in various fields, Indonesia and Vietnam are preparing the next Action-Plan for 2019 to 2023. The action plan includes political dialogue and diplomatic, economic cooperation, security and defense cooperation, and tourism promotion, cultural exchanges and inter-community relations or people-to-people contact. Vietnam's Ambassador to Indonesia, Pham Vinh Quan in his remarks at the reception of Vietnam National Day which was held in Jakarta on Tuesday evening on September 4th, 2018 said that President Joko Widodo is scheduled to hold a bilateral visit to Vietnam to discuss the follow-up of the 2019 to 2023 Action Plan with Vietnamese Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

“We develop close cooperation in a wide range of areas and coordination in major international and regional issues and now, we are waiting for the next Action Plan for the years 2019 to 2023 to be signed during the visit of President Joko Widodo to Vietnam in early September. The two sides are determined to set the target to raise bilateral trade to $10 billion dollars by 2020. The first state visit to Vietnam by President Joko Widodo along with the coming visit to Indonesia by Vietnamese Prime Minister in October this year will certainly be the driving force for our bilateral cooperation and will yield important dividends for both of our countries in the near future,” said Ambassador Pham Vinh Quan.

Ambassador Pham Vinh Quan further said that Vietnam and Indonesia have close and long historical relations. The two countries have similar background, independence struggle history and general view coordination in many regional and international forums. It is an important foundation from the establishment of strategic partnership between Vietnam and Indonesia signed in 2013. The partnership also indicates that it is the new era of increasing bilateral cooperation in many fields. (VOI/Rezha/Trans by AF/AHM)