Party General Secretary meets with Belarusian Prime Minister
PM M.Myasnikovich said
he expected the visit will create a new impulse pushing for deeper
traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperation between the two
countries.
He affirmed that Belarus held high regard
for Vietnam’s role in the region and the world, stating that cementing
the relations with Vietnam is among priorities in Belarus’s foreign
policy designed for Asia-Pacific.
The Vietnamese
Party leader and the Prime Minister shared their joy seeing the two
countries’ traditional friendship and cooperation growing and their
political ties unceasingly being strengthened.
They
noted the triple rise in two-way trade recorded over the past five years
remains below the two countries’ potential and expressed their belief
that a free trade agreement between Vietnam and the Customs Union of
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will pave the way for accelerating export
activity. The agreement could be initialed by the end of 2014 and will
be officially signed in early 2015.
PM
M.Myasnikovich pledged to pay attention to facilitating Vietnam’s
exports, especially farm products, seafood, apparel and footwear, to the
Belarusian market while working towards establishing joint ventures
producing such items right in Belarus.
Both leaders
agreed to continue providing the best possible conditions for the two
countries’ businesses to connect, firstly making it easier for the
military-run Viettel group to invest in a telecommunication project in
Belarus and other projects engaging in automobile and tractor
manufacturing, coal exploitation and mining.
The PM
said his country will consider increasing scholarships for Vietnamese
students, especially in the fields of culture, arts and defence.
The leaders shared the view that cooperation in labour and vocational
training is promising and needs to be accelerated in the coming time.
They emphasised the important role of local
affiliation in consolidating the traditional friendship and opening up
economic and trade cooperation opportunities.
At the
end of the meeting, the host and guest witnessed the signing of several
cooperative documents between the Communist Party of Vietnam Central
Committee’s Commission for External Relations and the Belarusian
President Office, the Ministry of Information and Communications and the
Belarusian Ministry of Information, and the central province of Quang
Ngai and Belarus’s Mogilov province.
Before the Belarus trip, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong visited Russia.-VNA