He additionally stated they stood united in commitments to freedom of navigation and the rule of regulation – a reference to regional maritime disputes with China.
Recalling his handle to the UN meeting on Tuesday, Biden added: “There’s nothing past our capability if we work collectively.”
Lam spoke on the UN Normal Meeting on Tuesday and his travels embody a cease in Cuba, Vietnam’s long-term Communist companion.
Forward of his journey, Vietnamese authorities launched some outstanding activists from jail earlier than the tip of their jail phrases, sources informed Reuters.
They included Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, who was sentenced to 16 years in jail in January 2010 on fees of subversion, and atmosphere activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong, who was sentenced to a few years in jail on fees of tax fraud in September final yr, however different dissidents stay in detention.
Sources informed Reuters that the USA has been urging Vietnam to keep away from Chinese language corporations in its plans to construct 10 new undersea cables by 2030.