President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse are welcomed by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind (second, right) and Prime Minister Narendra Modiat (first, right) at the official welcome ceremony in New Delhi on March 3 (Photo: VNA) New Delhi (VNA) – Vietnamese PresidentTran Dai Quang and his spouse were greeted with a 21-gun salute at an officialwelcome ceremony at the Indian Presidential Palace in New Delhi on March 3morning (local time).
At the ceremony, the Vietnamese leader, his wifeand the Vietnamese delegation were welcomed by Indian President Ram NathKovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and many senior officials of India.
[India always a steadfast friend, development partner of Vietnam: official]
After the welcoming ceremony, President Quanggave an interview to Indian media, highlighting the importance of his Statevisit to India from March 2 to 4 and the prospects of the two countries’comprehensive strategic partnership in the future.
Later, the President had talks with NarendraModi at the Indian PM’s Office in New Delhi.
Following the talks, President Quang and PM Modiwitnessed the exchange of cooperation documents signed during this visit,namely a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation between the VietnamAtomic Energy Institute and the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership,an MoU on cooperation in economy and trade between the Vietnamese Ministry ofIndustry and Trade and the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and anaction plan on agricultural cooperation for 2018-2020.
After that, the two leaders chaired a jointpress conference to announce the outcomes of their talks.
PM Modi affirmed that the State visit byPresident Quang reflects Vietnam’s commitments to bolstering the countries’comprehensive strategic partnership. He stressed bilateral ties date backthousands of years ago and today’s generations are benefiting from therelationship set up by late PM Jawaharlal Nehru and President Ho Chi Minh.
The Indian PM informed that during his talks with theVietnamese President, the two sides discussed in-depth all aspects of the twocountries’ comprehensive strategic partnership with strong growth recorded inbilateral trade.
According to India’s statistics, two-way trade increased toover 10 billion USD from 6 billion USD over the past 5 years.
Vietnam and India agreed to focus on renewableenergy, agriculture, garment-textile, oil and gas. Particularly in the field ofoil and gas, along with the current cooperation mechanism, India hopes toexpand tripartite collaboration between Vietnam, India and the third party.
Another important pillar in the bilateralcooperation is defense-security. India is keen to partner with Vietnam in thissphere to ensure an independent and stable Indo-Pacific region with differencesto be addressed peacefully.
President Tran Dai Quang said the two countriesreiterated commitments and high political determination to further deepenVietnam-India relations as well as exchanged major orientations to enhancecooperation across the board.
Regarding politics and diplomacy, Vietnam andIndia agreed to increase all-level delegation exchanges, especially amonghigh-ranking officials, via the Party, State, Government, and National Assemblychannels in addition to tightening people-to-people exchanges.
The President invited his Indian counterpart RamNath Kovind, PM Narendra Modi and Indian top legislators along with leaders ofIndian Parties and States to visit Vietnam soon.
The two sides will push ahead with cooperationin defense-security through maintaining English training courses and buildingcapacity for the two sides’ officials, providing preferential credit packages,joining the UN peacekeeping activities, improving the efficiency ofdefense-security dialogues and mechanisms, and considering the expansion ofcooperation in other potential fields.
Regarding economic-trade-investmentcooperation, trade barriers will be reduced, making it easier for exports ofthe two countries to access each other’s market, towards lifting the bilateraltrade to 15 billion USD by 2020.
The two sides highly valued symbolic cooperation projects such as Long Phu 2thermal power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, wind and solarpower projects in central south provinces, and talked the possibilities ofsetting up garment and textile industrial parks of India in Vietnam.
Vietnam hopes India will continue to provide Vietnam with technical,technological and financial assistance in the breakthrough fields of infrastructureand human resources development, and science-technique; and help Vietnamimprove its research and development capability, especially in bio-technology,health care, and application science, President Quang said.
The two countries will also work closely in an India-funded project to preserveand embellish the My Son relic site, as wellas launching more tourism promotion activities, thus increasing the number ofvisitors to the respective country.
On the multilateral level, President Quang affirmed Vietnam will cooperateclosely with India to help the Central Asian country further bolster all-aroundties with other ASEAN member nations, for the sake of both sides.
He also highlighted the importance of maintaining security, safety, aviation andnavigation freedom; resolving disputes by peaceful measures in line withinternational law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS), and strictly respectingdiplomatic and legal processes.
Also on March 3, President Tran Dai Quang, his spouse and entourage paid floral tribute to India's national hero Mahatma Gandhi at the Raj Ghat Memorial.-VNA
After the welcoming ceremony, President Quanggave an interview to Indian media, highlighting the importance of his Statevisit to India from March 2 to 4 and the prospects of the two countries’comprehensive strategic partnership in the future.
Later, the President had talks with NarendraModi at the Indian PM’s Office in New Delhi.
Following the talks, President Quang and PM Modiwitnessed the exchange of cooperation documents signed during this visit,namely a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation between the VietnamAtomic Energy Institute and the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership,an MoU on cooperation in economy and trade between the Vietnamese Ministry ofIndustry and Trade and the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and anaction plan on agricultural cooperation for 2018-2020.
After that, the two leaders chaired a jointpress conference to announce the outcomes of their talks.
PM Modi affirmed that the State visit byPresident Quang reflects Vietnam’s commitments to bolstering the countries’comprehensive strategic partnership. He stressed bilateral ties date backthousands of years ago and today’s generations are benefiting from therelationship set up by late PM Jawaharlal Nehru and President Ho Chi Minh.
The Indian PM informed that during his talks with theVietnamese President, the two sides discussed in-depth all aspects of the twocountries’ comprehensive strategic partnership with strong growth recorded inbilateral trade.
According to India’s statistics, two-way trade increased toover 10 billion USD from 6 billion USD over the past 5 years.
Vietnam and India agreed to focus on renewableenergy, agriculture, garment-textile, oil and gas. Particularly in the field ofoil and gas, along with the current cooperation mechanism, India hopes toexpand tripartite collaboration between Vietnam, India and the third party.
Another important pillar in the bilateralcooperation is defense-security. India is keen to partner with Vietnam in thissphere to ensure an independent and stable Indo-Pacific region with differencesto be addressed peacefully.
President Tran Dai Quang said the two countriesreiterated commitments and high political determination to further deepenVietnam-India relations as well as exchanged major orientations to enhancecooperation across the board.
Regarding politics and diplomacy, Vietnam andIndia agreed to increase all-level delegation exchanges, especially amonghigh-ranking officials, via the Party, State, Government, and National Assemblychannels in addition to tightening people-to-people exchanges.
The President invited his Indian counterpart RamNath Kovind, PM Narendra Modi and Indian top legislators along with leaders ofIndian Parties and States to visit Vietnam soon.
The two sides will push ahead with cooperationin defense-security through maintaining English training courses and buildingcapacity for the two sides’ officials, providing preferential credit packages,joining the UN peacekeeping activities, improving the efficiency ofdefense-security dialogues and mechanisms, and considering the expansion ofcooperation in other potential fields.
Regarding economic-trade-investmentcooperation, trade barriers will be reduced, making it easier for exports ofthe two countries to access each other’s market, towards lifting the bilateraltrade to 15 billion USD by 2020.
The two sides highly valued symbolic cooperation projects such as Long Phu 2thermal power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, wind and solarpower projects in central south provinces, and talked the possibilities ofsetting up garment and textile industrial parks of India in Vietnam.
Vietnam hopes India will continue to provide Vietnam with technical,technological and financial assistance in the breakthrough fields of infrastructureand human resources development, and science-technique; and help Vietnamimprove its research and development capability, especially in bio-technology,health care, and application science, President Quang said.
The two countries will also work closely in an India-funded project to preserveand embellish the My Son relic site, as wellas launching more tourism promotion activities, thus increasing the number ofvisitors to the respective country.
On the multilateral level, President Quang affirmed Vietnam will cooperateclosely with India to help the Central Asian country further bolster all-aroundties with other ASEAN member nations, for the sake of both sides.
He also highlighted the importance of maintaining security, safety, aviation andnavigation freedom; resolving disputes by peaceful measures in line withinternational law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS), and strictly respectingdiplomatic and legal processes.
Also on March 3, President Tran Dai Quang, his spouse and entourage paid floral tribute to India's national hero Mahatma Gandhi at the Raj Ghat Memorial.-VNA
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