Vietnam attends India’s North East Summit
Vietnamese Ambassador to India Nguyen
Thanh Tan, together with officials and diplomats from South Asian and
ASEAN countries, has attended India’s North East Summit in Mumbai.
Addressing
the event, Ambassador Tan stressed the favourable conditions for
Vietnam and India’s northeastern region to strengthen cooperation,
including the close distance and many geographic similarities,
especially as the two countries are promoting their strategic
partnership.
However, the diplomat also emphasised the need to
further enhance connectivity in order to expand cooperation between the
region and Vietnam in particular and ASEAN in general.
The
summit, which ended on Jan. 22, discussed issues related to the Indian
government’s development strategies for its northeastern region which
has a great tourism and economic potential, especially in mining,
infrastructure, agriculture, and food processing.
The northeast
region consists of eight states with a total area of 262,230 sq.km and a
40 million population. It borders Nepa , Bangladesh, Myanmar,
Bhutan and China.
The Indian government plans to attract
foreign investment to turn the region into an international economic and
trade hub, a gateway to ASEAN and East Asia, in order to promote the
country’s “Look East” policy./.