Vietnam - Poland establish strategic partnership

On the morning of October 26, at the Government Headquarters, immediately after successfully concluding the talks, Politburo Member, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with the press to inform about the results of the talks.

Speaking at the press conference, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung said that with a common vision and strong determination to bring the cooperative relationship between the two countries into a new era of deeper, more comprehensive, and more substantive development, the two sides have adopted a Joint Statement on establishing a Strategic Partnership and an Action Plan on strengthening the Vietnam - Poland partnership for the period 2026 - 2030; witnessed the exchange of 2 documents including cooperation agreements in the fields of higher education and tourism.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung affirmed that the two sides have reached a high consensus on promoting the effectiveness of major groups of solutions, strengthening political trust by agreeing to maintain exchanges and contacts at all levels, across all channels of the Party, State, Government, National Assembly, local and people-to-people exchanges; improving the effectiveness of existing bilateral cooperation mechanisms; studying the establishment of a cooperation mechanism for the Intergovernmental Committee on Economic Cooperation to create a framework for exchange, regular coordination, and timely review and removal of barriers and obstacles to promote economic, trade and investment cooperation.

Vietnam acknowledges Poland's proposal and will actively consider the possibility of expanding the scope of visa exemption for Polish citizens, in accordance with Vietnamese law and regulations; requesting Poland to also actively consider visa exemption for people holding Vietnamese official passports.

The two sides committed to closely coordinate to promote the effective implementation of the Vietnam - EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), striving to increase bilateral trade turnover to 6 billion USD by 2030; agreed to strengthen cooperation, promote the role of the ASEAN - EU Strategic Partnership framework to promote common interests, contribute to strengthening strategic autonomy of each country, ensuring supply chains, energy security, food security, and response to climate change.

The two sides agreed to identify Poland as the gateway for Vietnamese goods to access the Central and Eastern European markets; strive for Vietnam to become an important gateway, a destination and a platform for Polish businesses and EU countries to access the dynamic ASEAN market; agreed to promote strengthening cooperation in the fields of energy transition, smart agriculture, digital transformation, space technology, and pharmaceuticals.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung affirmed that the two sides also agreed to further deepen defense and security cooperation; promote substantive cooperation in the fields of defense and security, transnational crime prevention, high-tech crime, network security and non-traditional security.

The two sides also agreed to elevate scientific and technological cooperation, innovation, and digital transformation into new pillars within the framework of the Strategic Partnership; improve and promote the effectiveness of the Vietnam - Poland Joint Committee mechanism on scientific and technological cooperation to identify a number of priority cooperation programs and projects with specific products and results; agreed to promote cooperation in training, scientific research, and technology transfer between universities, research institutes, and businesses of the two countries.

The two Prime Ministers also affirmed to make cooperation in education - training, culture - tourism, labor, and people-to-people exchanges a sustainable foundation for bilateral cooperation. Vietnam highly appreciates the fact that the Polish National Airlines has officially announced the resumption of the Warsaw - Hanoi direct flight route.

On the other hand, the two sides agreed to effectively implement the Cooperation Agreement in the field of labor; strengthen cooperation in high-skilled labor training and quality vocational training, helping Vietnamese workers access international standards, meeting the human resource needs of Polish businesses operating in Vietnam.

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