By Ankit Panda
A high-level bilateral visit in New Delhi this week demonstrates the myriad areas of cooperation between the two.
Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, is about to conclude a major bilateral visit to New Delhi. The visit seems to have reinvigorated the already-warm relationship between the two Asian countries, and saw agreements affecting the future of the India-Vietnam relationship in the South China Sea (SCS). Beginning with this visit, New Delhi will be spending the next few months on its diplomatic calendar looking east, with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and Japanese President Shinzo Abe also expected in New Delhi soon.
Over the course of the visit this week – the third such major bilateral visit conducted by Vietnamese officials since 2011 – India and Vietnam signed several agreements and a major Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). If there were any doubts about the strategic breadth and depth of the relationship – which was upgraded to a strategic partnership in 2007 – the agreements should put these doubts to rest.
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