The first Vietnam - China Border Provinces Judicial Conference will be held in 2025
25/10/2024
Immediately after the end of the talks, the two Ministers signed an Agreement on organizing the first Conference between judicial agencies of provinces sharing the Vietnam-China border (to be held in China in 2025). According to this Agreement, the expected contents of the Conference will include: law making, lawyer management, notarization, judicial expertise, mediation, arbitration, legal aid, legal dissemination and education, judicial assistance in civil and commercial matters and proposing solutions to promote better implementation of these tasks in the coming time, building a roadmap to promote cooperation between the two Ministries of Justice and between local judicial agencies of the two countries.
. The Judicial Conference mechanism of provinces sharing the Vietnam-China border will be held every two years on a rotating basis to promote legal and judicial cooperation between localities in the border areas of the two countries as well as between the two Ministries of Justice, sharing experiences in better performing judicial work within the functions and tasks of each side.
On the same day, according to the visit's schedule, Minister Ha Vinh will meet with the Minister of Public Security; meet with the Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission and greet the Prime Minister.
It is hoped that with this historic visit of the Chinese Minister of Justice, the legal and judicial cooperation between the two countries' Ministries of Justice will be increasingly strengthened in a more in-depth, effective and practical direction, contributing to deepening the Vietnam-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, realizing the goal of "being good neighbors, good friends, connected by mountains and rivers, being good comrades, good partners with the same aspirations, sharing a common destiny, and working together for the happiness of the people, a prosperous country and the noble cause of peace and development of mankind" (Vietnam-China Joint Statement 2022) and "Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future" according to the Vietnam-China Joint Statement 2023.
Promoting cooperation in the field of local law and justice between Vietnam and China
On the morning of June 13, 2024, at the Ministry of Justice Headquarters, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Khanh Ngoc had a meeting with Director of the Department of Justice of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Guangxi Department of Justice) Li Daojun and a delegation of officials from the Department of Justice of Guangxi, China, who visited and worked in Vietnam.
At the reception, Deputy Minister Nguyen Khanh Ngoc welcomed the Director of the Department of Justice of Guangxi, China, emphasizing that the friendly neighborly relationship and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China are developing well and achieving many important results in various fields, while emphasizing that the legal and judicial fields between Vietnam and China always receive the attention of the Party and State leaders. This has been agreed by the top leaders of the two countries and recognized in the Vietnam - China Joint Statements in November 2022 and December 2023, specifically: "The two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in the legal and judicial fields, creating a legal basis for comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and China in various fields; actively implementing the obligations of international treaties to which both sides are members. Effectively implement the Agreement between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the People's Republic of China on Judicial Assistance in Civil and Criminal Matters, the Extradition Agreement between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the People's Republic of China; promote the effective implementation of the Agreement between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the People's Republic of China on the Transfer of Convicted Persons; promote the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between the Ministries of Justice of the two countries to achieve substantive results, jointly perfect the judicial assistance mechanism between the two sides; study the establishment of methods for resolving civil and border trade disputes; promote legal and judicial cooperation in localities sharing a common border in appropriate forms.”
In recent times, the cooperative relationship between the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam and the Ministry of Justice of China has developed very positively. The two Ministries have signed important cooperation documents, serving as a basis for implementing specific cooperation activities, including: Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the legal field (signed on October 31, 2022 during the official visit to China by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong) replacing the Cooperation Protocol between the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam and the Ministry of Justice of China in 1997; Cooperation Program for 2024-2025 (signed on December 8, 2023 during the official visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President Xi Jinping). On that basis, in 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam organized a reception and working session with the delegation of the Minister of Justice of China led by Minister Ha Vinh to visit and work in Vietnam from 18-21/2024. This visit is of great significance, opening a new page in the history of cooperation between the two Ministries and branches of Justice, creating momentum to promote the strong development of legal and judicial cooperation between the Ministries of Justice of the two countries, contributing to consolidating and developing the good and comprehensive friendly cooperation between the two Parties and the two States of Vietnam and China.
On this occasion, the Deputy Minister introduced the functions, organizational structure and key tasks of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam and the system of local judicial agencies, and informed about the Plan to organize the first Judicial Conference of provinces sharing the Vietnam - China border, scheduled for 2025 in China according to the Agreement signed between the two Ministries of Justice during the recent visit of Minister of Justice Ha Vinh. The Deputy Minister suggested that the Department of Justice of Guangxi, China continue to closely coordinate with the Departments of Justice of Vietnam sharing the border to actively participate in the preparation of this Conference to promote cooperation, enhance exchanges, share experiences in implementing local judicial work, and coordinate in handling legal and judicial issues of people and businesses in border areas.