Vietnam has emerged from a backward country with 90 percent of its population working in the agricultural sector, to one that is well on its way towardsindustrialisation and modernisation.
The Vietnamese National Assembly always backs and facilitates increased cooperation with traditional friends, including Hungary, NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung told Hungarian NA Speaker Kover Laszlo.
Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson and his spouse concluded the State visit to Vietnam from November 3-6 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.
Visiting Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has advised Ho Chi Minh City to seek partnerships with Iceland in high technology, food processing and renewable energies.
Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry and Iceland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade should work together to boost engagements between their countries’ ministries, localities and businesses.
President Truong Tan Sang and his Icelandic counterpart Olafur Ragnar Grimsson shared the wish for stronger economic, trade and investment cooperation between the two countries during their talks in H
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reiterated Vietnam’s consistent policy to further deepen ties with Iceland during a meeting with President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson in Hanoi on November 4.
Swiss Vice President and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research Johann Niklaus Schneider-Ammann affirmed that Switzerland considers Vietnam an important partner.
The Prime Minister has asked the Interdisciplinary Steering Committee
for international integration in politics, security, defence, economics,
socio-culture, science-technology and education-training to improve the
quality of its consultancy on policymaking so as to make international
integration an effective means of promoting sustainable development and
safeguarding national sovereignty and security.
The visit of the head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
to Vietnam will serve as momentum to lift bilateral relations to a
new height, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said on June 2.
Vietnamese companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises,
need to use e-commerce more to strengthen their competitiveness in
foreign trade, Le Dang Doanh, an economist and former member of the
Government Advisory Council, has said.
Vietnam’s export sector has so far this year earned about 150
billion USD, up 13.6 percent against the previous year, the Nhan Dan
(People) online newspaper reported.
Croatian, Slovak, Bulgarian, and Swiss Ambassadors to the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) presented credentials to ASEAN
Secretary-General Le Luong Minh on December 2, affirming their
Governments’ commitments to closer ties with the bloc.
Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held separate meetings with his
Philippine and Norwegian counterparts on the fringes of the 10 th
Asia-Europe Meeting in Milan, Italy on October 16.
More opportunities for business cooperation are emerging for
Vietnamese and Norwegian businesses, especially once the free trade
agreement between Vietnam and the European Free Trade Association, which
comprises Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, is signed, a
workshop heard on October 15.
Norway has pledged to continue to provide Vietnam with official
development assistance, especially in the fields of climate change
response, forest protection, natural disaster prevention and
education-training.
Strengthening international cooperation for sustainable management of
natural resources and the environment is a key task for the Ministry
of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) in the second half of the
year.
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