Vietnam, New Zealand legislative leaders hold talks

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue held talks with Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Adrian Rurawhe in Wellington on December 6.

Chairman Hue told his host Vietnam gives high priority to strengthening ties with New Zealand.

Rurawhe described Vietnam as a favourite destination for New Zealand people, with about 40,000 arrivals to the country each year before the pandemic.

The two sides agreed on the need to further strengthen economic-trade-investment cooperation, making it a driving force for development of bilateral ties.

Apart from traditional cooperation fields of education-training, tourism, they urged expanding joint work into new and promising areas such as digital transformation, energy transition and climate change.

Host and guest agreed to build a cooperation agreement between the two legislatures to create a legal framework for their ties, continue facilitating the exchange of delegations to share experience on legislation and personnel training, especially English language training, among their committees and offices./.

VNA