Algerian Ambassador to Vietnam Boubazine Abdelhamid (L) meets Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Construction Le Quang Hung, President of the Vietnam-Algeria Friendship Association (Photo: Vietnamese Embassy in Algeria) The diplomat held that bilateral trade hasremained modest at 231 million USD in 2021, down from 360 million USD in theprevious year due to COVID-19 impacts.
In terms of investment, the Vietnam National Oil and GasGroup (Petrovietnam) is currently the only Vietnamese investor in Algeria, hesaid, stressing the need to further expand economic and trade collaborationbetween the two countries.
Algerian Ambassador to Vietnam Boubazine Abdelhamid (Photo: VNA) Vietnam and Algeria will celebrate the 60th anniversary of their diplomatic ties this year, which is a good chance for bothsides to specify their cooperation agreements, contributing to reinforcing anddeveloping the bilateral relations, he said.
Regarding cooperation priorities in 2022, the diplomat saidthat the two sides will organise the 12th meeting of theAlgeria-Vietnam Cooperation Committee and the Algerian Culture Week in Vietnamthis year.
Vietnamese and Algerian engineers (Photo: VNA) Sharing his feelings about Vietnamese traditional New YearFestival (Tet), he said that he experienced the first Tet in Vietnam and wasstrongly impressed by the diversity of flowers in the festival.
He said that there are many similarities between Vietnamese Tet and Algeria’s Yennayerfestival, especially in the diversity of traditional food and decoration.
On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, the ambassador extended best wishes toVietnamese people, expressing his hope that the two countries will harvest newsuccesses in their partnership in all fields./.
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