Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Meetings with President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of Vietnam February 27, 2019

Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Meetings with President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of Vietnam
February 27, 2019

President Donald J. Trump met today in Hanoi with President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of Vietnam.  President Trump thanked President Trong and Prime Minister Phuc for Vietnam’s generosity and partnership in hosting his meeting with Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Chairman Kim Jong Un. The leaders agreed on the need for continued progress toward the final, fully verified denuclearization of the DPRK.  They discussed ways to strengthen the United States—Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership, including by deepening political, security, economic, and people-to-people ties, and through cooperation on humanitarian and legacy of war issues.  The leaders also committed to promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific with shared principles of respect for sovereignty, peaceful resolution of disputes in accordance with international law, and freedom of navigation and overflight.  They discussed trade issues and reaffirmed the importance of trade that is free, fair, and reciprocal and welcomed the growing commercial relationship between these two countries, as demonstrated by today’s contract signings worth over $21 billion between United States companies Boeing, GE/CFM, and Sabre Corporation; and Vietnam companies VietJet, Bamboo Airways, and Vietnam Airlines.  Finally, they celebrated 30 years of cooperation on POW/MIA accounting missions, and they look forward to Vietnam’s chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the 25th anniversary of normalized diplomatic relations in 2020

.- Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary