Vietnam is always willing to expand cooperation for development in thespirit of equality and mutual benefit with African countries, StatePresident Nguyen Minh Triet affirmed.
Vietnam can share withfriends from African countries its experience in agriculturaldevelopment, particularly agricultural production and food security,poverty reduction, health care development and education, the Presidentsaid while receiving head delegates of African countries andinternational organisations to the Vietnam-Africa International Seminarin Hanoi on August 17.
He expressed his pleasure with newdevelopments in economic cooperation and trade exchange betweenVietnam and African countries over the past six years, after the firstmeeting to discuss cooperation between the two sides took place.
Two-waytrade between the two sides rose from 600 million USD to 3 billion USDover the period. However, the figure did not reflect their potential andstrength.
The President said he wants participants to theongoing seminar to have a detailed assessment of issues, to discuss andseek practical lessons and experiences and to increase economiccooperation and trade between the partners.
Vietnamwill spare no effort to develop cooperation with each African country aswell as with the community of African countries, he assured.
PresidentTriet thanked the United Nations Deputy General Secretary, Cheick SidiDiarra, for his presence at the seminar and highly spoke of the UN’srole in facilitating and promoting cooperation between Vietnam andAfrican countries, particularly its support of a number of socialsecurity development programmes such as poverty reduction, health careand education.
The UN official hailed Vietnam as host of the seminar and said he believes in a bright future for the bilateral ties.
Heexpressed his admiration at Vietnam ’s achievements in its nationaldevelopment renewal process, saying that the country’s lessons will beuseful for African nations.
Also on the sidelines of the seminar,Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem had bilateralmeetings with UN Deputy General Secretary Cheick Sidi Diarra and theministers of several African countries, affirming his wish to promoterelations between Vietnam and African nations.
They discussed concrete measures to increase cooperation in politics, economics, trade, agriculture, education and healthcare./.
Vietnam can share withfriends from African countries its experience in agriculturaldevelopment, particularly agricultural production and food security,poverty reduction, health care development and education, the Presidentsaid while receiving head delegates of African countries andinternational organisations to the Vietnam-Africa International Seminarin Hanoi on August 17.
He expressed his pleasure with newdevelopments in economic cooperation and trade exchange betweenVietnam and African countries over the past six years, after the firstmeeting to discuss cooperation between the two sides took place.
Two-waytrade between the two sides rose from 600 million USD to 3 billion USDover the period. However, the figure did not reflect their potential andstrength.
The President said he wants participants to theongoing seminar to have a detailed assessment of issues, to discuss andseek practical lessons and experiences and to increase economiccooperation and trade between the partners.
Vietnamwill spare no effort to develop cooperation with each African country aswell as with the community of African countries, he assured.
PresidentTriet thanked the United Nations Deputy General Secretary, Cheick SidiDiarra, for his presence at the seminar and highly spoke of the UN’srole in facilitating and promoting cooperation between Vietnam andAfrican countries, particularly its support of a number of socialsecurity development programmes such as poverty reduction, health careand education.
The UN official hailed Vietnam as host of the seminar and said he believes in a bright future for the bilateral ties.
Heexpressed his admiration at Vietnam ’s achievements in its nationaldevelopment renewal process, saying that the country’s lessons will beuseful for African nations.
Also on the sidelines of the seminar,Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem had bilateralmeetings with UN Deputy General Secretary Cheick Sidi Diarra and theministers of several African countries, affirming his wish to promoterelations between Vietnam and African nations.
They discussed concrete measures to increase cooperation in politics, economics, trade, agriculture, education and healthcare./.
