National Assembly Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn (right) welcomes Chief Justice of the Chinese Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun. — VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất

HÀ NỘI — National Assembly (NA) Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn on Sunday welcomed the President and Chief Justice of the Chinese Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun, and a delegation from the Chinese Supreme People's Court who are on a working visit to Việt Nam.

The visit to Việt Nam comes at a time of good development between the two Parties, two countries, and two legislative bodies.

NA Chairman Mẫn said he had had a friendly and fraternal meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang during his recent official visit to Việt Nam.

During this latest meeting, the two sides agreed on the high determination to effectively implement the high-level common perceptions and the Việt Nam-China Joint Statements, continuously promote the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, the Việt Nam-China Community with A Shared Future with strategic significance and agreed to strengthen the bilateral relationship.

“The Party, State and NA of Việt Nam firmly consider developing friendly and cooperative relations with China as a consistent policy, an objective requirement, a strategic choice, and a top priority in the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, multilateralisation and diversification of foreign relations,” the NA Chairman said.

Chief Justice of the Chinese Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun thanked NA Chairman Mẫn for taking the time to meet him; emphasising that the two countries' agreement to build the Việt Nam-China Community with A Shared Future has strategic meaning, marking a new step in the development in Việt Nam-China relations, creating many benefits.

Chief Justice Zhang Jun said that the supreme people's courts of the two countries have had a long-standing cooperation.

The two sides regularly exchange experiences in various fields.

During the visit, the two discussed and agreed on future activities and at the same time talked about judicial reform, activities of judicial agencies in the fields of environment, protection of intellectual property rights, information technology application in judicial activities, bankruptcy and public interest prosecution.

NA Chairman Mẫn congratulated and highly appreciated the results achieved during the visit to Việt Nam by Chief Justice Zhang Jun and the Chinese Supreme People's Court delegation.

The NA Chairman stated that in Việt Nam, the Supreme People's Court plays a very important role in implementing the "Strategy for building and perfecting the Socialist Rule-of-Law State of Việt Nam to 2030, with a vision to 2045", which includes many important contents related to improving the court system’s operational efficiency.

With the goal of organising the court to be increasingly professional, modern, honest, and fair as well as improving working quality, especially in the litigation process, the Vietnamese NA passed the amended Law on Organisation of People's Courts, consisting of nine chapters and 152 articles.

The law will take effect from the beginning of next year.

He highly appreciated the achievements of the Supreme People's Courts of the two countries in recent times.

The two agencies signed a cooperation agreement in 2018, which laid the foundation for promoting cooperation activities.

Leaders of the two countries' supreme people's courts regularly visit and work to exchange experiences in trial activities.

The NA Chairman highly appreciated the cooperation mechanism of the Việt Nam-China Border Province Court Conference, which was held for the first time in June last year in China, marking a new development step in the relationship between the two countries' courts.

He hoped that the second conference, scheduled to be held next year, would achieve good results.

To promote cooperation between the two Supreme People's Courts, NA Chairman Mẫn suggested that the two sides continue to increase delegations exchange at all levels to further enhance understanding of each other's legal and judicial systems; and share views on judicial reform to serve the building of a socialist rule-of-law state under the leadership of the Communist Party.

Along with that, the two sides continue to enhance cooperation effectiveness, especially at local levels sharing a common border, to meet new requirements in the international integration process of each country in general as well as judicial cooperation between the two countries in particular.

The two countries actively work together in attending multilateral international forums and conferences of which both sides are members. — VNS