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PM talks with German Chancellor by phone

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on April 28 to discuss ways to improve bilateral relations.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had a telephone conversation with GermanChancellor Angela Merkel on April 28 to discuss ways to improvebilateral relations.

Both were pleased with the development ofthe friendship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam andGermany at different levels in recent years.

They agreed toenhance and improve bilateral cooperation, providing benefits andmeeting the aspirations of the two countries’ governments and people.

Theyhighly valued that Germany remains Vietnam ’s largest tradingpartner in the European Union, registering a 15 percent annual growth intwo-way trade, to 4.1 billion USD in 2010.

More than 200 Germanbusinesses, including world-leading groups in equipment, machinery,technology and the pharmaceutical industry are investing and operatingin Vietnam .

Both discussed measures to accelerate theimplementation of major cooperation projects, namely metro route No.2and the Vietnam-Germany University in Ho Chi Minh City .

PMDung thanked Germany for its commitment on further officialdevelopment assistance (ODA) to Vietnam amidst Germany ’s economicdifficulties from the global economic crisis.

Chancellor Merkelaffirmed Germany’s strong support in promoting cooperation between theEU and Vietnam, especially EU’s early adoption of the Partnership andCooperation Agreement (PCA), which was initialled with Vietnam, and thewarming-up of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between theEU and Vietnam.

PM Dung repeated his invitation to ChancellorMerkel to visit Vietnam . The German Chancellor accepted theinvitation with pleasure and announced her visit in October this year./.
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