Prime Minister: Vietnam regards US as leading important partner
Vietnam considers the US one of its leading important partners, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told US Vice President Mike Pence.
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Vietnam considers the US one of its leading important partners, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told US Vice President Mike Pence.
The US is the largest export market of Vietnam, with export turnover hitting 39 billion USD in the first ten months of 2018, representing a year-on-year increase of 12.8 percent.
There has been no report on any Vietnamese national among the deaths caused by the wildfires that are raging through California, the US, killing at least 25 people as of November 11, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.
Head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC)’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh received Assistant US Trade Representative for Services and Investment Daniel Bahar in Hanoi on November 8, asking the US side to increase dialogues in a bid to promptly handle trade barriers.
Vietnam welcomes the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution calling for an end to the US embargo against Cuba, spokesperson for the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said.
The last 13.7 hectares of detoxified land in the dioxin-polluted area in Da Nang airport were handed over to the Ministry of Transport at a ceremony held in the central city on November 7, raising the total remediated area to 32.4 hectares.
Vietnam and the US have succeeded in detoxifying 32ha of land previously polluted with dioxins at Da Nang Airport, as heard at a conference in the central city to review the outcomes of the project.
A workshop to seek measures to boost agriculural exports from the Mekong Delta region to the US was held in Can Tho city on November 5.
The United States has removed 11 Thai products from its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) programme for 2018 effective from November 1.
Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang are preparing the shipment of 400 tonnes of local well-known Lo Ren star apples to the US this year.
The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) has become the first commercial bank of Vietnam to set up a representative office in the US.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a message of sympathies to US President Donald Trump over the October 27 shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh which claimed the lives of many innocent civilians.
Vietnam earned 369.1 million USD from exporting tra fish to the US in the first nine months of this year, up 42.9 percent year-on-year.
US Secretary of Defence James Mattis has reiterated his country’s stance on the East Sea issue and, at the same time, called on Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) to join hands with the US to prevent any single country from dominating the sea.
The 10th Vietnam-US Joint Committee Meeting on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (JCM10) took place in Washington DC from October 15-17.
A gathering was held in Hanoi on October 17 to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the Vietnam-US Society (VUS).
General Ngo Xuan Lich, Minister of National Defence, received his US counterpart James Mattis in Ho Chi Minh City on October 17.
Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan hosted a reception in the city on October 16 for US Secretary of Defence James N.Mattis, assuring him that Vietnam always considers the US one of its important partners.
