An overview of the conference (Photo: VNA) Moscow (VNA) – A conference has been held inMoscow to discuss the outlook of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the roleof Vietnam and Belarus in the expansion of the Asia-Europe development space.
Addressing the event, President of the “Asia-Europe House”Association Alexander Makhlaev highlighted the role of Vietnam's traditional values in the country’s development.
He held that the political stability has paved the way for Vietnam’seconomic development.
Meanwhile, Natalya Ivanova, an expert from AV Group,underlined the significance of international business environment in theintegration process of each country.
She asserted that the EAEU is creating a new motivation,especially for the strengthening of cooperation among member countries as wellas with partners, including Vietnam.
According to Chairman of the Council of Experts of the Eurasian Research Fund GrigoryTrofimchuk, Vietnam, a dynamic developing country and a member of manyintegration mechanisms and international organisations, is working hard tospeed up integration process.
Vietnam is the first partner to sign a free trade agreementwith the EAEU in 2015, he noted, adding that the union should focus more onpartnership with Vietnam as the country is a door to the world.
The official highlighted the dynamism of Vietnamese firms in Russia as well as othercountries in the world. However, he said that Vietnam and the EAEU have yet tooptimise each other's advantages and potential, while a number of trade barriersbetween the two sides are still existing.
He held that both sides should discuss the maintaining oftrade defence measures to increase trade in the future, adding the EAEU should showits advantage in the current period when the COVID-19 pandemic is developingcomplicatedly in the world.
Within the conference’s framework, Trofimchuk introduced hisbook entitled “Vietnam wings up”, expressing his hope that the book will helpVietnam and Russia become closer together in economy, trade and humanity./.
