PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia and Vietnam have agreed to further cooperate across multiple sectors, including defence, marine, digital and energy, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said.

Anwar said the collaboration will also leverage the ASEAN Energy Grid to foster regional growth.

"The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, To Lam been very forthcoming and supportive (and) so are the leaders in Vietnam.

"Therefore we will make sure that we will facilitate the collaboration in all fields namely defence, marine, digital and energy using the ASEAN Energy Grid," he said in a joint press conference after a bilateral meeting between the two leaders at Perdana Putra Building here today.

Earlier, Anwar and Lam witnessed the exchange of the memorandum of understanding on enhancing trade promotion between the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) and the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (VIETRADE); and the memorandum of collaboration between Petronas and PetroVietnam.


-- BERNAMA