Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung spoke highly of a cooperation agreement on religion between the Myanmar Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Vietnamese Government’s Committee for Religious Affairs.

The PM made this remark when receiving Myanmar Minister of Religious Affairs Thura Myint Maung and his delegation on December 7 in the capital city of Hanoi and expressed the belief that cooperation will continue expanding in future.

On behalf of the Vietnamese Government, PM Dung congratulated the Myanmar Government and people on their achievements and expressed his pleasure at the fine development of friendly relations between the two peoples.

Myanmar and Vietnam share many similarities in culture, history and religion, the PM said. He affirmed that the Vietnamese Government and people are doing their best to further promote the bilateral relation in all the fields in a spirit of friendship, support and mutual benefit.

For his part, the Myanmar Minister asserted that the cooperation agreement on religion is an important landmark in the relations between the two governments, adding he hoped the two sides will exchange experience on religious issues with experts and scholars in the coming time./.