Vietnam and China have agreed to enhance the exchange of
high-level and expert delegations to share information and experience in
combating drug trafficking, terrorism, counterfeit currency and hi-tech
crimes and safeguarding inland security.
The
agreement was reached at the talks between Vietnamese Minister of Public
Security Sen. Lieut. Gen. Tran Dai Quang and his Chinese counterpart
Meng Jianzhu in Beijing on Jan. 5.
The ministers
also agreed to beef up cooperation in training police officers and
improve their professionalism, foreign languages, science-technology and
martial arts as well as providing each other with equipment and
devices.
Quang said that the results of cooperation
between the two ministries have contributed to maintaining social order
and security of each country and boosting the traditional relationship
between the two Parties, States and peoples.
Later on
the day, Quang met with Zhou Yongkang, member of the Standing Committee
of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Committee of Political and
Legislative Affairs of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
Quang, who is on an official visit to China from Jan. 4-7,
informed his host of the earlier talks with the Ministry of Public
Security, the Ministry of State Security and the People’s Armed Police
Force of China.
Zhou highly valued the outcomes of
cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and the
Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security and the
People’s Armed Police Force of China. He also expressed his hope that
the two sides will further bolster cooperation under the instruction of
the two Parties and Governments./.