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Prime Minister welcomes Thailand’s top legislator

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception for President of the National Legislative Assembly of Thailand Pornpetch Wichitcholchai in Hanoi on August 14.
Prime Minister welcomes Thailand’s top legislator ảnh 1Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc receives President of the National Legislative Assembly of Thailand Pornpetch Wichitcholchai (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc hosted a reception for President of the National Legislative Assemblyof Thailand Pornpetch Wichitcholchai in Hanoi on August 14.

The PM said he will lead a high-level Governmentdelegation to visit Thailand from August 17-19 to exchange measures to promotebilateral friendship and cooperation, and increase the two countries’ strategicpartnership.

Vietnam and Thailand have enhanced coordinationin various fields from politics, security, and defense to economics, trade,tourism, culture and society in recent times, Phuc said.

[Vietnam, Thailand should keep mutual support at int’l parliamentary forums]

Thailand is the biggest trade partner of Vietnamin ASEAN with two-way trade reaching 12.5 billion USD in 2016. However, asVietnam ran a trade deficit of 5 billion USD with Thailand, Phuc hoped the twocountries will seek measures to balance trade and increase the bilateral tradeto 20 billion USD by 2020.

The tourism cooperation also developed with about800,000 Vietnamese tourists visiting Thailand in 2016 while over 200,000 Thaistravelling to Vietnam, he noted.

The PM proposed Thailand open its market forVietnamese goods and create more favourable conditions for Vietnamese workersto work in the country as well as encourage Thai businesses to boost investmentin Vietnam.

Vietnam will address difficulties and createconditions for Thai investors to do business, he affirmed.

For his part, Pornpetch highlighted the soundrelations between Vietnamese and Thai legislatures. The two sides haveexchanged ways to boost bilateral cooperation at international forums.

Thailand and Vietnam are big trade andinvestment partners, he said, adding that they have pushed cooperation in otherfields such as security, defense, and marine patrol.

The connection of roads and railways betweenThailand and Vietnam via third countries in the future will be an importantfactor to promote bilateral wide-ranging cooperation, including tourism, hesaid, hoping that the two sides will strengthen measures to draw more Thaitourists to Vietnam.-VNA
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