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Uruguay supports Vietnam’s negotiations of FTA with Mercosur: Official

Uruguay will take the role as President of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and continue to support Vietnam’s negotiations of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the bloc, Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs Omar Paganini has said.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay Ngo Minh Nguyet (L) presents a copy of her credentials to Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs Omar Paganini in Montevideo on May 16, (Photo: VNA)
Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay Ngo Minh Nguyet (L) presents a copy of her credentials to Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs Omar Paganini in Montevideo on May 16, (Photo: VNA)

Montevideo (VNA) – Uruguay will take the role as President of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and continue to support Vietnam’s negotiations of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the bloc, Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs Omar Paganini has said.

Speaking at a reception for Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay Ngo Minh Nguyet who presented a copy of her credentials in Montevideo on May 16, the minister emphasised that the country will work closely with the Vietnamese Embassy to promote stronger and more comprehensive relations between the two countries in the coming time.

He noted that Uruguay wishes Vietnam to support and share experiences on the process of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as well as expanding collaboration in economy, commerce, and export of agricultural products.

On May 17, Nguyet had a meeting with the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Uruguay Juan Castillo and Central Committee member, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Anna Olivera Pesano, among others.

General Secretary Juan Castillo expressed his desire to further strengthen cooperation with agencies of the Communist Party of Vietnam and learn from Vietnam's valuable experiences in national construction and development.

In addition, the Communist Party of Uruguay is planning to build, publish, and popularise many documents on the history and development of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Vietnam, and President Ho Chi Minh in an attempt to enhance the understanding by Uruguayan people of the heroic history of Vietnam.

Nguyet expressed appreciation to the Communist Party of Uruguay for its support to the revolutionary movement of the Party, State, and people of Vietnam as well as the Embassy of Vietnam in Argentina and Uruguay in carrying out activities to promote cooperation and Party-channel and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.

Gustavo Cabrera, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uruguay and Director of the Department of Economic Development of Montevideo city, handed to Nguyet a decision of the city on building a 500sqm Vietnamese culture space near the international conventional centre. The space includes a zone for commemorating President Ho Chi Minh who once arrived in ports in Uruguay and Argentina during his journey to seek ways to savage the nation 112 years ago./.

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