The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, held separate meetings on Friday with his colleagues from Pakistan and Vietnam, with whom he met in Brussels at the meeting of the III EU-Indo-Pacific Forum and at the EU-ASEAN Ministerial Summit on green transition.
Albares, who also met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Mohamad Haji Hasan, analyzed bilateral relations, the situation in the region and the great global challenges with his counterpart from Pakistan, Jalil Abbas Jilani.
This was stated by the Spanish minister, who added, in his account on the social network X, that “Spain works for international peace and security.”
Likewise, Albares met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, Bui Thanh Son, with whom he also addressed the state of bilateral relations and agreed on the need to continue deepening them.
In the same social network, the Spanish minister pointed out that he also discussed with his Vietnamese colleague the EU-Indo-Pacific relationship and the main global challenges, “which we must – he said – face from multilateralism.”
Bui Thanh Son, for his part, pointed out that, in his conversation with Albares, about the measures to be adopted to give new impetus to the Strategic Partnership between Spain and Vietnam, “improving bilateral relations along with a more solid cooperation within the framework of ASEAN and the EU,” he said on his X account.
