President meets leaders of Italian parties

NDO/VNA—Vietnam attaches importance to developing its strategic partnership with Italy, an important partner in the EU, President Tran Dai Quang has told the leaders of several Italian parties.

The President separately met with the leaders of the Democratic Party, the Communist Refoundation Party and the Communist Party of Italy on November 23 (local time) as part of his State visit to the country.

At these meetings, the Vietnamese leader informed his hosts of the outcome of his talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

He noted with pleasure the strong development of the bilateral relationship in various fields since the two countries established their strategic partnership in January 2013.

President Quang also introduced plans for socioeconomic development as well as foreign policy set by the Twelfth Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), affirming that the Vietnamese Party treasures its traditional friendship with Italy’s left-wing parties.

He stressed the CPV’s stance on maintaining, consolidating and enhancing its relations with fraternal parties while expanding ties with major and ruling parties in foreign countries.

Reviewing the eighteenth International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Hanoi in October, the President noted the parties’ resolve to struggle for peace, independence, equality, democracy, civilisation and socialism.

The Vietnamese leader expressed his hope that the Italian left-wing parties and the CPV will increase meetings and experience sharing and support each other to achieve common objectives, contributing to deepening the bilateral strategic partnership.

In reply, the Italian hosts reassured President Quang of the solidarity of their parties with Vietnam’s past struggle for national liberation as well as its present cause of national construction.