At the talks with the Vietnamese minister, Secretary of the US Department of the Interior Davis Bernhardt expressed his belief that the visit will contribute to deepening the US-Vietnam comprehensive partnership in general and cooperation between the US department and the Vietnamese ministry in particular.
For his part, Gen. Lam stressed that although peace, cooperation and development are still major trends of the era, countries in the world are also facing many new difficulties and challenges.
He emphasised the need for law enforcement agencies of Vietnam and the US to have close and effective cooperation, especially in fighting terrorism, transnational organised crime, drug crimes, money laundering, high-tech crime, human trafficking, and illegal trading of wild animals and plants; and in ensuring national security and social order in each nations.
On the occasion, Minister Lam and Secretary Bernhardt signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in fighting illegal wildlife trade between the two agencies.
Earlier, the Vietnamese officer held talks with Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, met with Davis Pakoske, Acting Deputy Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security and received Ann Griffiths, head of the US’s National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia.
