Hanoi hopes for stronger partnership with capital city of Belarus

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Tran Sy Thanh expressed his hope for enhanced connections with Minsk while addressing a meeting with visiting Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko on December 7.
Hanoi hopes for stronger partnership with capital city of Belarus ảnh 1At the signing ceremony of a cooperation programme between Hanoi and Minsk for implementing bilateral friendship and cooperation in the 2024 - 2026 period (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Chairman ofthe Hanoi People’s Committee Tran Sy Thanh expressed his hope for enhancedconnections with Minsk while addressing a meeting with visiting Belarusian PrimeMinister Roman Golovchenko on December 7.

Informing his guest about thecooperation results between Hanoi and Minsk, Thanh said that since the two countriesset up diplomatic relations on January 24, 1992, their capital cities have beendeveloping multifaceted cooperation. They officially signed an agreement onfriendship and cooperative ties in November 2004.

They have maintained information sharing,trading activities, cultural and people-to-people exchanges, along with mutualvisits.

Duringthe first nine months of 2023, Hanoi exported 144,000 USD worth of goods toBelarus while recording 1.5 million USD in imports from this Eastern Europeancountry.

The management boards of the Hanoi-basedHoa Lac Hi-Tech Park and the Belarus Hi-Tech Park inked a cooperation deal inMay 2010 to promote the development of the software and information technologysectors in the two parks as well as the two countries at large, Thanh noted.

He called on PM Golovchenko to help promoteexchanges and cooperation of agencies and businesses of Belarus, includingMinsk, with Hanoi in the fields both sides are strong at, thereby fostering hiscity’s ties with Belarusian localities.

For his part, the Belarusian leader,who is on an official visit to Vietnam, voiced his belief that the strong partnershipsbetween the two capitals will become a highlight of the relations between Belarus and Vietnam.
Hanoi hopes for stronger partnership with capital city of Belarus ảnh 2Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Tran Sy Thanh, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko and delegates (Photo: VNA)
To implement the cooperationprogramme for 2024 - 2026, he suggested Hanoi and Minsk build annualimplementation plans, firstly sending an art troupe to perform and hold aVietnamese culture day in Minsk, holding an economic and trade forum, andarranging a trip by a Vietnamese delegation to visit educational institutionsof Belarus and devise economic cooperation orientations.

Atthe meeting, Hanoi and Minsk signed a cooperation programme for implementing bilateralfriendship and cooperation in the 2024 - 2026 period./.


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