Call for new US-VN framework
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The Vietnamese Ambassador to the US, Nguyen Quoc Cuong, has appealed for a new bilateral partnership framework to be agreed during President Truong Tan Sang's visit to the US this week.
In an interview, the ambassador said: “Nearly one decade has passed since the two nations established the current framework of constructive, friendly partnership and multi-faceted cooperation on the basis of equality, mutual respect and benefit.
“In light of strong existing relations we share and the potential to strengthen them further, it is time to define a new bilateral partnership framework.”
He said Truong’s trip would be only the second official visit by a Vietnamese head of State in nearly two decades since the normalising of ties with the US, and the first high-level talks in five years.
