SINGAPORE: President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Friday (Oct 25) congratulated Luong Cuong on his appointment as president of Vietnam.
The 67-year-old army common is Vietnam’s fourth president prior to now three years, following a interval of political upheaval. He changed To Lam, who turned president in May after his two predecessors had been ousted in an anti-corruption battle.
In a letter, Tharman expressed his congratulations to Mr Cuong, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) stated on Friday.
Tharman stated: “The strategic partnership between Singapore and Vietnam has grown from energy to energy.”
Last yr, Singapore and Vietnam commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations and ten years of their strategic partnership.
“Our cooperation has continued to broaden and deepen in lots of areas, together with commerce and funding, safety and protection, training and human useful resource improvement,” Tharman wrote.
Singapore and Vietnam have continued to strengthen their conventional areas of cooperation and have additionally expanded their collaboration to incorporate areas similar to inexperienced vitality, carbon credit and the digital economic system, he famous.
“We ought to proceed to construct on our robust cooperation and mutual belief, and work collectively in multilateral boards, together with ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations).”
In the context of exploring Singapore and Vietnam to raise ties to a complete strategic partnership, Tharman stated he regarded ahead to working carefully with Cuong “to take our friendship to larger heights”.
He additionally referred to as on Mr Cuong to “pay a state go to to Singapore as quickly as potential”.
“I want you each success in your new function as president.”
