✍️ BY: Dr. Hana Saada
Algiers – November 2025 – In a diplomatic turn that redefines Algeria’s outreach in Asia and consolidates a renewed Southern cooperation agenda, Algeria and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam formally elevated their bilateral relationship to the level of a strategic partnership. The announcement, made on Wednesday in Algiers by Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb at an expanded consultative meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh, crowns weeks of intense negotiations during the 13th session of the joint Algerian–Vietnamese Mixed Commission and a bilateral economic forum that mobilised ministers, business delegations and technical experts.
Far from ceremonial rhetoric, the declaration is accompanied by an operational programme: Ghrieb insisted on the need for a roadmap with concrete milestones and fixed deadlines, designed to translate political will into measurable projects across political, security, economic, technological and cultural domains. The language of the covenant underlines a shared strategic vision—one that links historical solidarity and decolonisation-era affinities to pragmatic cooperation in an era of economic competition and technological transition.
A pragmatic, wide-ranging agenda
At the heart of the partnership lies an ambitious agenda geared to capitalise on complementarities: Algeria’s abundant natural resources, favourable logistics for access to European and African markets, and ongoing domestic reforms; Vietnam’s industrial dynamism, experience in export-led manufacturing and its rising technological capacities. Ghrieb urged Vietnamese operators to “seize the opportunities afforded by Algeria’s reform drive,” explicitly pointing to priority sectors: hydrocarbons, renewable energies, agriculture and agro-industry, pharmaceuticals, construction and urban development, technology, digital transformation and higher education.
Both premiers placed particular emphasis on the implementation architecture: intensified political consultations, stronger diplomatic coordination in multilateral fora, enhanced defence and security cooperation (including combating transnational organised crime and unconventional threats), and a stepped-up programme of business partnerships and joint ventures to channel investment and technology transfer.
Concrete instruments and legal scaffolding
The summit produced a clutch of legal instruments intended to anchor cooperation. Signed accords cover housing and urban development, debt settlement, education, scientific and telecommunications cooperation, and a memorandum of understanding between the Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its Vietnamese counterpart. USTHB and Vietnam’s Posts and Telecommunications Administration agreed on scientific cooperation in telecoms; the trade ministries signed a letter of intent to foster commercial flows. These instruments create both a normative framework and a pipeline for tangible, sectoral projects subject to the roadmap’s timelines.
Trade liberalisation and market access
On the economic front, both sides declared their intention to negotiate a commercial agreement on goods to reduce barriers and open reciprocal market access—an initiative aimed at multiplying trade beyond current levels and unlocking the full potential of agro-industry, textile value chains, pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment. The stated objective is to move from episodic transactions to sustained industrial partnerships that produce jobs and technological spillovers in both countries.
South–South cooperation and multilateral alignment
Ghrieb framed the partnership within a larger diplomatic project: strengthening South–South cooperation as a means to bypass North–centric constraints on finance and technology. Algeria’s recent accession to the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in Southeast Asia was presented as an enabling move, providing an institutional channel to deepen Algeria’s engagement with ASEAN and to embed the Algeria–Vietnam axis in broader regional architectures.
A model of balanced strategic agency
What distinguishes this accord is its blend of political solidarity and sober economic calculation. Both leaders underscored a commitment to multilateralism and to coordinating positions in international and regional organisations—an echo of Algeria’s long-standing diplomatic posture that couples principle with practical statecraft. The Vietnamese prime minister described the talks as yielding a “high level of consensus” and confirmed Hanoi’s readiness to fast-track cooperation, including launching implementation committees and ministerial working groups.
From commitment to delivery: the test ahead
Signatures and communiqués mark a promising start; the real test will be the speed and quality of implementation. Ghrieb’s repeated call for a calendar and monitoring mechanisms acknowledges this challenge and signals an Algerian determination to avoid relegating agreements to symbolic diplomacy. The emphasis on legal frameworks, joint technical committees and business-to-business facilitation demonstrates an awareness that strategic partnerships must be engineered with institutional precision to deliver industrial projects, training programmes and sustainable investment.
In sum, the Algeria–Vietnam elevation to a strategic partnership is more than a diplomatic milestone: it is an operational commitment to convert shared history and political goodwill into an actionable cooperation model—one that seeks to generate jobs, transfer technology, diversify economies and strengthen South–South ties while anchoring relations in enforceable agreements and a clear timetable for delivery.
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