MPS seeks to expand cooperation with Uzbekistan’s National Security Service

Deputy Minister of Public Security Tran Quoc To and other high-ranking officers of the Ministry of Public Security accompanied National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man on an official visit to Uzbekistan to attend the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU 150) from April 5 to 8.

Speaking the meeting, Deputy Minister Tran Quoc To affirmed that, on the basis of the longstanding traditional friendship between the two countries, following President Ho Chi Minh’s visit to Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1959, Vietnam and Uzbekistan have maintained active cooperation across various fields.

Accordingly, the two countries regularly coordinated and supported each other at the United Nations and other international forums, while increasing delegation exchanges at all levels to further mutual understanding between the two countries.

The two sides’ efforts have strengthened the bilateral relationship in a more practical and effective manner, enhanced political trust, and laid a solid foundation for both countries to expand cooperation in all areas.

In the field of security and law enforcement, Vietnam and Uzbekistan are active members of INTERPOL and parties to numerous international conventions on crime prevention.

Notably, the two sides have signed a Governmental-level Agreement on Cooperation in the Prevention and Combat of Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crime and Other Types of Crime, a key legal document, demonstrating both sides’ determination to promote cooperation in combating crimes.

At the talks, Deputy Minister Tran Quoc To and Mr. Juraev Jakhongir agreed on key orientations for cooperation between the two agencies in the context of increasingly complicated traditional and non-traditional security challenges that directly affect the lives of citizens and social stability in both countries.

The two sides saw the need to accelerate the negotiation and signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and Uzbekistan’s State Security Service as well as enhance delegation exchanges, especially at high levels, to seek opportunities for further cooperation.

Additionally, the two sides agreed to promote information and experience sharing as well as maintain regular information exchanges on global and regional security issues of mutual concern.

The two head delegates also reached consensus on strengthening cooperation in counterterrorism as well as jointly organizing training programs to build capacity of the two countries’ law enforcement forces, contributing to raising their effectiveness efficiency of crime prevention and control in both countries.

Finally, the two sides will closely collaborate to ensure absolute security and safety for visits of one country’s top leaders to the other country while protecting and creating favorable condition for one country’s citizens residing, working, studying or traveling legally in the other.

* On this occasion, Deputy Minister Tran Quoc To and the Vietnamese delegation also visited the Hwang Man Geum Museum, the historical site that President Ho Chi Minh had visited during his 1959 trip to Uzbekistan.