A Maz Asia auto manufacturing and assembling plant was inaugurated and put into use in the northern province of Hung Yen on September 26, witnessed by Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Lyashenko.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue and his Belarusian counterpart Igor Lyashenko on September 25 reached consensus on concrete measures to advance economic, trade and investment cooperation between Vietnam and Belarus, making it match potential of each side.
Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Lyashenko affirmed Vietnam is a long-standing and reliable partner of Belarus while meeting with Politburo member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on September 24.
Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Quoc Hung met with visiting Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Lyashenko on September 24, affirming that the Vietnamese capital pledges favourable conditions for cooperation with the European nation.
A delegation from the Central Steering Committee for External Information Service, led by Party Central Committee member and deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Communication and Education Thuan Huu recently visited Belarus and Estonia to exchange experience in external information service.
Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu, who is also head of the trade union of Vietnamese banks, met with a trade union delegation of Belarus’s finance-banking sector in Hanoi on May 22.
Belarus not only wants to export its products to Vietnam, but also transfer technologies and establish joint production plants in Vietnam with local firms, a bilateral business forum heard in Ho Chi Minh City December 6.
Ho Chi Minh City always welcomes and creates favourable conditions for Belarusian enterprises to invest in the city and stands ready to work as a bridge for Belarus to enter the potential, dynamic ASEAN market, said a municipal official.
Vietnam is a special partner of Belarus as it is the first country signing a free trade agreement with the Eurasia Economic Union, said Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Dapkyunas.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has expressed her wish that Vietnam and Belarus will step up their relations in all potential aspects, of which defence cooperation should be made a highlight.
Minister of Defence Ngo Xuan Lich held talks with his Belarusian counterpart Ravkov Andrei Alekseevich in Hanoi on November 15, discussing bilateral defence and military technical cooperation.
Vietnamese trade unions want to learn experience from the Belarusian Trade Union of Chemical, Mining and Oil Industries Workers in ensuring benefits for workers, according to Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour Tran Thanh Hai.