page_title: Philippines–Vietnam relations
section_title: Post-Cold War relations
hierarchical_section_title: Philippines–Vietnam relations / Post-Cold War relations
caption_attribution_description: English: President Benigno Simeon Aquino III meets with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet in one of the Conference Rooms of United Nations Headquarters in New York on Tuesday (Sept 21). The President is in New York for a weeklong working visit to the United States to attend the 65th United Nations General Assembly and the 2nd US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Meeting. (Photo by Gil Nartea/ Malacanang Photo Bureau)
context_page_description: The Philippines–Vietnam relations refers to the bilateral relations of the Republic of the Philippines and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Since the end of the Cold War, relations between the two countries have warmed significantly. Vietnam is sometimes referred to as the only communist military ally of the Philippines. Both nations have cooperated in the fields of education, tourism, agriculture, aquaculture, trade, and defense. Additionally, both nations have similar positions on the South China Sea issue, with Vietnam backing the Philippine victory in the ICC against China, and the Philippines backing to a certain extent the claim of Vietnam in the Paracels. Both nations have overlapping claims in the Spratlys, but have never made military confrontations as both view each other as diplomatic allies and ASEAN brethren.
context_section_description: Despite Vietnam's alignment with the Soviet Union and the Philippines with the United States during the Cold War, bilateral ties between the two countries can be recently described as friendly. On October 26, 2011, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang made a state visit to the Philippines where he met with his Filipino counterpart, President Benigno Aquino III. The two countries signed four agreements on naval, coast guard and tourism as part of the Philippine-Vietnam Action Plan 2011–2016 framework. A Memorandum of Understanding agreement supported information sharing between the Philippine Navy and the Vietnam People's Navy.
  Despite being victims of Typhoon Haiyan themselves, although the damage Haiyan made to Vietnam was not so big like expected, the Vietnamese still donated to help the Philippines in its rehabilitation efforts after the natural disaster, through Vietnam Red Cross Society.
caption: President Benigno Aquino III (left) and President Nguyen Minh Triet during a bilateral meeting in 2010
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