Party economic official visits Mozambique
Pretoria (VNA) – A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Nguyen Van Binh, Head of the
Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, visited Mozambique from December
11-15.
During the visit, Binh met
with Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario and FRELIMO Party
General Secretary Eliseu Joaquin Machava, and held talks with Esperanca Bias,
Politburo member in charge of economic affairs of the FRELIMO.
He also had meetings with
Jose Condungua Pacheco, FRELIMO Politburo member and Minister of Agriculture
and Food Security, and Ernesto Max Tonela, Minister of Industry and Trade.
During the meetings, the Mozambique
side affirmed the importance of the relationship between the FRELIMO and the
CPV, and thanked the Vietnamese party’s help in training FRELIMO’s officials
and assistance in developing agriculture and telecommunications.
Binh expressed his pleasure
at the expanding cooperation between Vietnam and Mozambique, manifested by the
success of Movitel, the joint venture between Viettel and Mozambique’s SPI
Investment Company in the telecom sector.
He suggested the two parties
boost exchanges of delegations to share experience in theoretical research, State
governance and national construction, thus facilitating economic and trade ties
between the two countries.
Discussing cooperation
potential between the two countries, the Vietnamese Party official proposed Vietnam
and Mozambique can cooperate in the mining of coal and precious metal.
He also asked Mozambique to
create conditions for Vietnamese enterprises to invest in producing rice,
cashew, and soybean, as well as in bonded warehouses, for-export processing
zones and trading centres.-VNA