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Vietnam active at Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting

Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong attended the Governing Council meeting and the General Debate of the 136th Inter-Parliamentary Union in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 2.
Vietnam active at Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting ảnh 1Vietnamese delegation at IPU meeting (Source: VNA)
Dhaka, (VNA) – Permanent Vice Chairwoman of the NationalAssembly (NA) Tong Thi Phong attended the Governing Council meeting and theGeneral Debate of the 136th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) inDhaka, Bangladesh on April 2.

On the sidelines of the meetings, Phong met with Speaker ofthe Sri Lankan Parliament Karu Jayasuriya, during which she affirmed Vietnam’sconsistent policy of treasuring its traditional friendship and multi-facetedcooperation with Sri Lanka.

She proposed the two countries continue coordinating andsupporting each other at multilateral forums, especially within the frameworkof the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement.

She suggested maintaining the exchange of all-leveldelegations, studying measures to further increase two-way trade, and activelyimplementing the investment encouragement and protection agreement betweenVietnam and Sri Lanka.

The NA Vice Chairwoman also stressed the need to encouragethe two countries’ businesses to take part in trade promotion activities, boostexperience sharing and the exchange of science and technology in aquaticproduct farming and processing, and strengthen connectivity through the twogovernments’ Air Transport Agreement.

She asked for early reply from the Sri Lankan side on adraft agreement on educational cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry ofEducation and Training and the Sri Lankan Ministry of Higher Education andHighways.

The Vietnamese official took the occasion to inviteJayasuriya to attend an IPU conference for the Asia-Pacific region in Ho ChiMinh City from May 11-13 to discuss legislators’ actions to realise thesustainable development goals in the context of climate change.

Speaker Jayasuriya expressed his hope to intensify hiscountry’s fine relationship, especially in trade, with Vietnam.

On the same day, Phong met with Bangladeshi Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina. She said she hoped Bangladesh would continue creating favourableconditions for the two countries’ enterprises to seek business opportunities.

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee forExternal Relations Nguyen Van Giau had a meeting with a delegation from theParliament of the Republic of Korea.

Also on April 2, the Vietnamese delegation participated inthe meetings of the IPU General Assembly Standing Committee, the StandingCommittee on Peace and International Security, the Forum of YoungParliamentarians of the IPU, and the Bureau of the Standing Committee on UnitedNations Affairs.-VNA
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