They also agreed to work together to remove difficulties facing investment cooperation projects towards more sustainable and healthy trade relations. The two FMs shared the delight at the progress of the Vietnam-India ties, even during COVID-19 period. Son, who was in India for the Special ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (He thanked the Indian side for providing helpful support to Vietnam in the COVID-19 fight. He asked for coordination from India to prepare for upcoming high-level visits, and invited FM Jaishankar to visit Vietnam and co-chair the 18th meeting of the Vietnam- India Joint Committee on economic, trade, science-technology cooperation in Hanoi in the second half of 2022. He agreed with the Vietnamese FM’s proposals, and pledged to coordinate with Vietnam to organise activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations.