The seven agreements were signed in the presence of visiting Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang. A joint communique said that the leaders agreed to strengthen and deepen bilateral cooperation on the basis of the strategic partnership with focus on political, defence and security cooperation, economic cooperation, science and technology, culture and people-to-people links, technical cooperation and multilateral and regional cooperation.
The leaders agreed that defence and security cooperation was an important pillar of the strategic partnership between the two countries.
The seven agreements were signed in the presence of President Mukherjee and his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang. The air services agreement was between Jet Airways and Air Vietnam while OVL, the overseas arm of oil major ONGC, and Petro Vietnam inked an agreement on exploring two additional blocks off Vietnam.