15/12/2020 (Agence Europe) – Representatives of the EU and Vietnam who met by videoconference on Tuesday 15 December on the occasion of the comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation Framework Agreement (PCA), agreed to further strengthen the partnership, “both bilaterally and within multilateral fora, to uphold the international rules-based order and promote peace and prosperity through a sustainable recovery”. According to their joint communiqué, the two sides reviewed progress and the next steps to be taken in implementing their various agreements, and discussed priority areas for the 2014–2020 development cooperation agenda, including sustainable energy, governance and the Rule of law. They also returned to the subject of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. See the press release: https://bit.ly/2WhRxfm (CG)