Huge potential for HCM City to expand ties with India: City leader

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party’s Committee Nguyen Van Nen on June 20 had a meeting with Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu as part of his visit to India.
Huge potential for HCM City to expand ties with India: City leader ảnh 1Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party’s Committee Nguyen Van Nen meets with Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on June 20. (Photo: sggp.org.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh CityParty’s Committee Nguyen Van Nen on June 20 had a meeting with Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu as part of his visit to India.

Welcoming Nen, Naidu, who is also Chairman of the Council of States of India, said 2022 is of significance to the Vietnam-Indiarelations as the two countries are celebrating the 50th anniversaryof their diplomatic ties this year (1972 – 2022).

Given that Vietnam, including HCM City, boasts greatadvantages in agricultural production, Vice President Naidu wishes the two sidesto further support and share experience with each other to develop agricultureand ensure food security in India.

Nen, for his part, thanked the Government and people of Indiafor their timely support for the southern city when it was battling theCOVID-19 outbreak, saying the city has kept the virus at bay and been seeingstrong socio-economic recovery. HCM City is standing firm as the main engine ofthe Vietnamese economy, he said.

He went on to highly appreciate the Indian community in HCMCity for playing a part in promoting Indian culture in Vietnam and strengthening the bilateral ties. There is hugepotential for the two sides to expand cooperation in the fields ofdefence-security, trade, information technology, digital transformation,tourism, cultural exchange, and people-to-people diplomacy, the city leadersaid.

HCM City is looking forward to fully unleashing potentialfor growing bilateral partnership in tourism after a direct flight has beenlaunched between the two countries.

Nen later paid a courtesy call to President of the IndianPeople’s Party Prakash Nadda during which they spent much of their timediscussing about Party building.

He later met with Indian Minister of External Affairs S.Jaishankar and paid a courtesy visit to Sitaram Yechury, general secretary ofthe Communist Party of India (Marxist)./.
VNA

See more

Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien (R), Politburo member, member of the Standing Board of the Central Military Commission, and Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam, and Kano Koji, Japan’s Vice Minister of Defence, at the 11th Vietnam-Japan defence policy dialogue in Fukuoka on February 10 (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam, Japan hold 11th defence policy dialogue

Vietnam is willing to cooperate with countries and international organisations for peace and development in the region and the world, said Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defence.

NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man speaks at the first meeting of the NA Party Committee for the 2020-2025 tenure in Hanoi on February 10. (Photo: VNA)

Top legislator calls for strong Party building, reform in National Assembly

NA Chairman Man, who is also a Politburo member and Secretary of the NA Party Committee, said that the committee, with nearly 3,000 members, must maintain strict organisational principles and build a clean and strong Party organisation that promotes solidarity, democracy, responsibility, unity, and creativity.

State President Luong Cuong holds a working session with the Presidential Office on February 10. (Photo: VNA)

State leader works with Presidential Office on judicial affairs

On the amnesty policy, State President Luong Cuong reaffirmed that granting clemency on the occasion of major national holidays in 2025 reflects the Party and State’s humanitarian approach, encouraging rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders into society.