Prime Minister meets Dutch leaders

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung have met with President of the Dutch House of Representatives Gerdi Verbeet and Vice President of the Senate Kim Putters during his current official visit to the European country.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung have met with President of the DutchHouse of Representatives Gerdi Verbeet and Vice President of the SenateKim Putters during his current official visit to the European country.

At the meetings, PM Dung affirmed that Vietnam attaches importanceto promoting the friendship and cooperation with the Netherlands inall fields, particularly response to climate change, water resourcemanagement, agriculture, sea port cooperation and oil and gas.

He stressed the positive developments in bilateral cooperation inclimate change response and water resource management, adding he hopedthe Dutch Parliament will continue its active support to programmes oncooperation with Vietnam in this field, as well as cooperationactivities in economics, trade, investment, health care, culture andeducation between the two countries.

The PM said astrong, effective and in-depth cooperation between the parliaments ofthe two countries will help promote bilateral friendship andmulti-faceted cooperation in the coming time.

President of the House of Representatives Gerdi Verbeet described PMDung’s official visit to the Netherlands a, helping promote thecooperative relationship between Vietnam and the Netherlands .

The Netherlands is ready to help Vietnam in education,healthcare and coping with climate change, particularly in implementingthe strategic partnership on climate change and water management, saidthe Dutch parliamentary leader.

At a reception givento Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard Van de Laan, PM Dung thanked the city’speople for their valuable support and friendly feelings to Vietnamesepeople, which is represented by the Hanoi-Amsterdam Senior HighSchool in Hanoi .

He told the mayor that a numberof Dutch companies such as Phillips, Heineken, and AkzoNobel havebecome familiar brand names in Vietnam .

The PMaffirmed that the Vietnamese Government encourages the two countries’localities to promote economics, trade and investment cooperation.

Mayor Van de Laan said Amsterdam always wants to expand all-round cooperation with Vietnam ’s localities.

He said he hoped the Vietnamese Government will create favourableconditions for Amsterdam businesses to invest in Vietnam in thefields of finance, banking, oil and gas and healthcare./.

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