Vietnam is willing to cooperate with Singapore in extradition, judicial assistance, and training of law enforcement officers amidst an increasingly complicated situation in the region.

President Truong Tan Sang made the statement while receiving Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean in Hanoi on August 27, who is visiting Vietnam to sign a cooperation agreement on transnational crime prevention and investigation.

Highly valuing the Singaporean Ministry of Home Affairs’ support, the President suggested the ministry continue deepening the relations between the two countries and sectors.

In the future, both sides should continue promoting the implementation of commitments in their cooperation documents and proposing studies on cooperation contents, Sang said.

Vietnam is pleased at results in socio-economic and political-security cooperation between the two countries, he said.

He highly valued Singapore’s role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and consistent stance on issues of common concern.

Teo Chee Hean affirmed that the two countries’ traditional ties and the recent signing of cooperation agreements between the two security sectors have contributed to strengthening and tightening the ties between Singapore and Vietnam, and agreed that the two countries need to maintain activities to lift their relations to the strategic partnership.

He affirmed ASEAN’s importance for both countries, saying that facing a rapidly changing world, an ASEAN of solidarity and unity with a consensus of each member country will make the community in Southeast Asia strong.

The Singaporean leader said his country commits to unceasingly making contributions to building the diplomatic ties with Vietnam .

Earlier the same day, Teo Chee Hean and Minister of Public Security Sen-Lieut. Gen. Tran Dai Quang held talks.

Quang said he hopes the Vietnam visit by Teo Chee Hean will open a new stage of development in relations and cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs through the signing of an extension for the cooperation agreement on transnational crime prevention and investigation.

The Singaporean leader said he wishes the two ministries will continue their successful efforts in the fight against crime.