"The comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and the U.S. has developed profoundly in recent years, with effective and practical progress having been made in both bilateral relations and multilateral mechanisms in all fields," foreign ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang told the press on Thursday.

Vietnam and the U.S. upgraded diplomatic ties to Comprehensive Partnership in 2013.

"The two sides are discussing measures to further deepen the Vietnam-U.S. relationship in the direction of stability and substantiality, heading towards a new level of relations when conditions are right in order to contribute to ensuring peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region as well as in the world," she said.

Vietnam-U.S. relations were normalized in 1995 and were upgraded to a Comprehensive Partnership in 2013.

Economic and developmental ties between the two states already run deep and are growing even stronger.

Bilateral trade between the two states was worth more than US$123.86 billion last year, up 11% from 2021.

The U.S. is Vietnam's largest export market and its second largest trading partner, while Vietnam is the eighth largest trading partner for the U.S.

U.S. investment in Vietnam has topped $11 billion, the 11th highest of any country or territory.

Education and training have also been an important part of the friendship the two countries share as every year some 25,000 Vietnamese students study abroad in the U.S.

In terms of security cooperation, the U.S. recently handed over to the Vietnamese Coast Guard two Hamilton-class vessels, the second-largest class of vessels in the U.S. Coast Guard, under the Excess Defense Articles (EDA) program.

The two sides have prioritized humanitarian cooperation, overcoming the consequences of war, and completing dioxin decontamination at the Da Nang and Bien Hoa airports.

Vietnam has helped facilitate the U.S. search for U.S. soldiers who went missing in action during the Vietnam War and has so far returned the remains of more than 730 service members to the U.S.

In March, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong had a phone conversation with President Joe Biden. Trong suggested the two countries focus on economic, scientific and technological cooperation as the driving forces in their relationship. Biden stated that Vietnam is an important U.S. partner, and that the U.S. supports an "independent, self-sufficient and prosperous" Vietnam.

In April, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Vietnam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Comprehensive Partnership between the two nations.

Upon receiving Blinken, General Secretary Trong said recent positive developments in the two countries' increasingly close and mutually beneficial ties would be the foundation for continuing to raise relations to new heights.

A decade of Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership

Vietnam and the U.S. became comprehensive partners in 2013, and over the last 10 years, the two countries' relations have evolved in multiple aspects, including trade and war reconciliation.

Vietnam-Italy strategic partnership

Cooperation between Vietnam and Italy has been reinforced in various fields, such as the economy, national defence, justice, and the environment, since the two sides established a strategic partnership a decade ago.

Vietnam-Malaysia strategic partnership

Vietnam and Malaysia have enjoyed a strong and growing bilateral relationship since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1973.

Vietnam, WEF bolster partnership

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is in Beijing for an official visit to China and attendance at the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Since the relationship was set up in 1989, cooperation between Vietnam and the WEF has become more substantive, focusing on important fields like macro policy consulting, plastic waste reduction, and sustainable agriculture.

PM’s official visit hoped to continue fostering Vietnam - China partnership

The coming trip to China by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is his first official visit there and also the first of its kind by a Government leader of Vietnam in seven years, expected to further intensify the two countries’ comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

Source: VnExpress