The welcoming ceremony for Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is held at the Invalides Palace in Paris, France.
Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault sign
a joint statement on the establishment of the Vietnam- France strategic partnership. Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

French President Francois Hollande receives Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

The meeting of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and French President Francois Hollande at the Presidential Palace.
Photo: Duc Tam - VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets with French Senate President Jean-Pierre Bel. Photo: Duc Tam - VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung receives French Minister of Defence Le Drain. Photo: Duc Tam – VNA
  

Strategic Partners and Comprehensive Partners of Vietnam Strategic Partner   • China (2008) • Russia (2001) • India (2007) • South Korea (2009) • Japan (2009) • The UK (2010) • Germany (2011) • Italy (2013) • Thailand (2013) • Indonesia (2013) • Singapore (2013) • France (2013) Comprehensive Partners  • New Zealand • Australia • The US

During the talks and meetings with French leaders, including President Francois Hollande, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and President of the Senate Jean-Pierre Bel, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung affirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of attaching special importance to the relations with France. The strategic partnership is not only a destination but also a new starting point with many new chances and hopes for bilateral and multilateral cooperation that requires both sides’ great effort to bring about practical results for the benefit of both countries.

Therefore, during this visit, the two sides defined prioritized strategic fields for cooperation, including politics-diplomacy, security-national defence, economy-trade-investment, development cooperation, culture, education-training, and research on science and justice. They also agreed to join hands in building and implementing action plans to realize the joint statement of the Vietnam- France strategic partnership.
French leaders affirmed their support for cooperation between the two countries, especially in economics, trade, investment, science and technology, development assistance and security-national denfence and the relations between Vietnam and EU on the basis of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA). They also would support Vietnam in the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement negotiations and its bids to promote cooperation with other countries at international forums.

Regarding the East Sea issue, the French side shared and supported Vietnam’s consistent policy of settling disputes by peaceful measures on the basis of respecting international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, strictly implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), and advancing to an early formation of the Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).

On the occasion of this visit, the two sides signed a series of cooperation documents and important agreements in many fields, including financial protocol for the equipment project of Can Tho General Hospital; an agreement on exchanging information of bank supervision of the Vietnam Sate Bank and the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR); a memorandum of understanding between the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency and the French Agency for Export Promotion (Ubifrance), a memorandum of understanding between Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and GDF Suez on liquefying gas and generating electricity project in Son My, Binh Thuan Province; a letter of intent for purchase of aircraft Airbus A320 between Vietjet Air and Airbus and a memorandum of understanding between the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport and Vinci Group on cooperation of developing the infrastructure of transport in Vietnam. 
 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault witness
the signing ceremony of agreements between Vietnam and France. Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attends the hand-over ceremony of an aircraft of Airbus to Vietjet Air.
Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has a dialogue with French leading businesses. Photo: Duc Tam - VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has an impressive dialogue with French and European scholars at the French International Relations Institute.
Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the National Council of French Employers. Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attends the inauguration ceremony of the Vietnam Embassy's headquarters in France.
Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and overseas Vietnamese in Paris, France. Photo: Duc Tam – VNA

One of the imprints of this visit is that Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had an impressive dialogue with French and European scholars about the strategic confidence, great regional and international issues, the Vietnam-France strategic partnership and the Asia-Europe relations.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said that the Vietnam-France strategic partnership which is based on trust, historical–cultural values and specific humanity needs to be promoted, making a contribution to building a peaceful environment, cooperation and development in Asia and Europe. Through the strategic partnership, the two countries will make an effort to prevent implications for individual schemes, inequality, expression to heighten unilateral strength, unreasonable claims, illegal actions against international law, which has imposed nature and violent politics. All things target peace, security, cooperation development and prosperity in the world.