Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Hoang Vinh Thanh has paid a working visit to Darwin, the capital city of Australia’s Northern Territory, to seek cooperation opportunities between the region and Vietnamese localities.

At meetings with Attorney General John Elferink and other high-ranking officials of the Northern Territory Government, Ambassador Thanh discussed the possibility of further intensifying cooperation in economics, trade, education and training between the two sides.

He voiced his thanks to the government for its help to and creating favourable conditions for the Vietnamese community in the region.

With large potential in cattle breeding, oil and gas exploitation and mining, particularly uranium, cooperation between northern Australia and Vietnamese localities will be further developed in the coming time.

The government’s representative informed Thanh that the region’s Chief Minister Adam Graham Giles will visit Vietnam in a near future to strengthen ties, especially in economics and trade, between the two sides.

During his visit, the Vietnamese diplomat also witnessed the signing ceremony of a contract on handing over the 11th cow lot from northern Australian exporters to the Hai Phong Animal and Poultry Products Import-Export Corporation. Vietnam is now Australia’s second biggest live cattle importer, after Indonesia.-VNA