Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Sept. 29 met with Dutch Queen Beatrix
as part of his official visit to the Netherlands.
PM Dung informed Queen Beatrix of the results of his talks with his
Dutch counterpart, during which the two PMs outlined many concrete
measures to deepen cooperation in all areas, especially in five priority
areas of climate change adaptation and water resource management,
agriculture, sea ports, oil and gas, and logistics services.
Vietnam values the Netherlands ’ experience in water management,
especially in the context of rising sea level’s serious impacts forecast
for Vietnam , PM Dung said.
He expressed his
hope that the Dutch Royal House will continue to encourage and create
conditions for the Dutch Government and companies to enhance cooperation
with Vietnam .
Dung’s views were shared by
Queen Beatrix who said she was pleased at the fine development in the
relationship between the Netherlands and Vietnam over the past
time.
She highly valued Vietnam ’s socio-economic
achievements, especially its fulfillment of the United Nations
Millennium Development Goals.
On the same day, PM
Dung held talks with Dutch Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Maxime Verhagen.
As one of the countries hardest hit by climate change and the rising
sea level, Vietnam needs more technical and human resource assistance
from the Netherlands to help the country cope with these issues,
said Dung.
He expressed his hope that the
Netherlands will cooperate with Vietnam in improving the quality of
agricultural products and creating favourable conditions for Vietnamese
goods to penetrate Dutch and European markets.
For
his part, Deputy PM Maxime Verhagen affirmed that he will pay attention
to Dung’s proposals and suggested the two sides further step up
cooperation in health care, education and training and culture as well
as investment promotion activities.
The Deputy PM
also underlined the need for Vietnam and the Netherlands to
enhance dialogue mechanism in order to timely address difficulties in
cooperation.
Later on the day, PM Dung attended a
banquet hosted by Dutch Foreign Minister Rosenthal and witnessed the
signing of a number of agreements by Vietnamese and Dutch companies
regarding cooperation in sea port, ship building, and agricultural and
mechanical vocational training./.