NA Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn (right) meets Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto on Saturday. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — National Assembly (NA) Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn on September 14 hosted a reception for Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto, who is on a working visit to Việt Nam from September 13-14.

The top legislator congratulated Subianto on his election and said he believes that the Indonesian guest will lead the nation to carve out further achievements, develop prosperously, rise in international stature, and realise its set target of becoming a developed country by 2045 – its 100th independence anniversary.

Mẫn stressed that Việt Nam always wants to deepen its strategic partnership with Indonesia towards elevating the ties to a comprehensive strategic one in 2025 when they will celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations.

He also spoke highly of the outcomes of the extensive and substantive talks between Party General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm and the Indonesian President-elect, which, he said, outlined major orientations for the bilateral relations.

Subianto, for his part, offered his sympathy with Việt Nam over the severe human and asset loss caused by Typhoon Yagi.

Laying stress on the similarities in history between the two nations, he expressed his confidence that the Việt Nam – Indonesia cooperation will continue developing in all areas for the best benefits of the people of both sides.

He committed to consolidating the win-win collaboration between the two countries, and took the occasion to thank Việt Nam for supporting Indonesia during its ASEAN chairmanship last year, underlining that the bilateral cooperation will result in a more effective voice for peace in the region and the world.

At the event, the two leaders concurred that it is necessary to step up cooperation in the domains of defence, security, prevention of transnational crimes to protect the citizens and national integrity of each nation, and in the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.

They reaffirmed the significance of peace, stability, safety, security, and freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea (internatioonally known as South China Sea), and agreed to maintain solidarity, common stance, and the results that ASEAN has attained on the East Sea issue, while promoting negotiations for a substantive and effective Code of Conduct in the waters in accordance with international law, particularly the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982.

Hailing the cooperation between the two legislative bodies over the past time, especially after the signing of the cooperation agreement between the Vietnamese NA and Indonesian House of Representatives in August last year, Mẫn said both sides have exchanged delegations, and shared law building experience to facilitate cooperation in areas with global significance such as green, circular and digital economies, energy transition, and semiconductor.

He said he hopes that Subianto will support collaboration between the two legislative bodies regarding delegation exchanges and experience sharing.

He suggested the two sides should join hands to supervise the implementation of cooperation agreements between the two countries, create favourable conditions for comprehensive collaboration, including connection of economies, localities and enterprises, and people-to-people exchange, while working closely with each other at multilateral forums like the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum. — VNS