Myanmar’s military-appointed President Min Aung Hlaing yesterday wound up a three-day go to to Vietnam, throughout which he and Hanoi’s prime leaders agreed to broaden cooperation throughout a broad entrance.
The previous basic arrived in Vietnam on Friday, a part of a diplomatic marketing campaign aimed toward consolidating ties with regional governments and normalizing relations with the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Along with assembly prime leaders together with President To Lam and Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, Min Aung Hlaing additionally held conferences with prime Vietnamese companies resembling VinFast, an area EV producer, and the military-run telecoms group Viettel, which operates Mytel, one among Myanmar’s main telecom operators.
In line with a Vietnamese authorities assertion quoted by Reuters, a key focus of the talks between Lam and Min Aung Hlaing was protection and safety cooperation, which the 2 leaders elevated to a key pillar of bilateral ties.
Particularly, the 2 leaders “agreed to broaden cooperation in navy coaching, exchanges between younger officers, search-and-rescue operations and catastrophe response, whereas stepping up data sharing and coordination towards crimes,” the assertion stated.
“Vietnam stands able to share its expertise in nationwide growth, making certain financial safety and fostering sustainable progress,” the assertion quoted Lam as saying in the course of the talks.
Economics and commerce have been additionally excessive on the agenda. Commerce between the 2 nations has fallen lately, as Myanmar has change into engulfed in civil battle. In line with statistics cited by the Related Press, two-way commerce totaled $853 million in 2020 however then fell to $590 million in 2025.
Talking on the Myanmar-Viet Nam Enterprise Discussion board in Hanoi yesterday, Min Aung Hlaing referred to as “for higher bilateral financial cooperation and elevated Vietnamese funding in Myanmar,” the International New Gentle of Myanmar reported. Particularly, he stated that Myanmar was “in search of to broaden cooperation with Vietnam in telecommunications, know-how, manufacturing, agriculture, vitality, tourism and human sources growth,” within the newspaper’s paraphrase.
Each side additionally reaffirmed a dedication to not permit any particular person or group to make use of one nation’s territory for actions towards the opposite – the same association to the one which Lam made throughout his go to to Thailand in Could.
Throughout his assembly with Min Aung Hlaing on Saturday, Le Minh Hung “congratulated Myanmar on attaining important leads to nationwide governance underneath the management of President Min Aung Hlaing,” Vietnamese state media reported. He additionally “affirmed Vietnam’s help for the Myanmar authorities in persevering with to implement measures to advertise stability, reconciliation, dialogue, financial growth, and enhance folks’s lives.”
Vietnam was the eighth nation that Min Aung Hlaing has visited since taking workplace in April, and the third member state from ASEAN, with a fourth – Cambodia – to observe later this week. He has additionally paid visits to India, China, Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. In all of those locations, he has sought to consolidate diplomatic relationships and to drum up international funding, as evidenced by the big enterprise and political delegations which have accompanied him on every journey.
A prime precedence, which Min Aung Hlaing flagged in his inauguration speech in April, is to normalize relations with ASEAN, which since late 2021 has excluded the nation from its summits over its failure to implement the bloc’s 5-Level Consensus battle decision plan. This plan requires a cessation of violence, entry to humanitarian help, and inclusive dialogue involving “all events” to the nation’s battle.
Myanmar’s authorities has rejected the Consensus, in each phrase and deed, whereas cultivating relations with these ASEAN member states most sympathetic to its reintegration into the 11-nation bloc.
