Vietnam Hopes To Host Events Of Kim-Trump Summit's Scale In Future - Ruling Party Official

Vietnam Hopes to Host Events of Kim-Trump Summit's Scale in Future - Ruling Party Official

Vietnam hopes to host other meetings that are of the same magnitude as the denuclearization summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un currently being hosted by the country's capital of Hanoi, Nguyen Hong Thach, a member of the ruling Communist Party's Commission for External Relations, told Sputnik on Wednesday

HANOI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th February, 2019) Vietnam hopes to host other meetings that are of the same magnitude as the denuclearization summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un currently being hosted by the country's capital of Hanoi, Nguyen Hong Thach, a member of the ruling Communist Party's Commission for External Relations, told Sputnik on Wednesday.

Nguyen recalled that the country had previously acted as host for many international high-level multilateral meetings such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which Vietnam hosted in 2006 and in 2017.

"Now we have a bilateral summit, and this is very important for security. Sure, it is the first time we host such kind of an important event. We hope that it is the first of series of other meetings ... We hope that we can host other meetings of such kind of importance," Nguyen, who is also the editor-in-chief of Vietnam's Foreign Affairs magazine, said.

The official stressed that he was happy that Vietnam was chosen to host a meeting that was of such great importance to the security of not only East Asia but the entire world as well.

"We are a host country, we can offer them [parties to the negotiations] facilities, and then we can wish good success to them, but it is difficult for us and anybody else, for Singapore [the host of the first historic Trump-Kim summit] as well ... to impact the process. But I think that the way we offer facilities, the way we wish success is how we can ... offer opportunities for them to find a compromise," Nguyen said.

He voiced the belief that Trump and Kim would not leave the country without an agreement.

"I think they will have some sort of compromise. Because they cannot solve at once the nuclear issue. So it will be, like Americans said, a step-by-step process. So it will be a compromise, a symbolic decision here in Hanoi that they will start the process. I expect that Trump could promise to partly lift the sanctions in exchange for President Kim to promise to stop nuclear testing," Nguyen suggested.

At their Singapore summit, held in June, Trump and Kim pledged to make effort to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, and this time they are expected to discuss concrete steps that would achieve this goal.