Vietnam, Turkey wish to boot ties
Vietnam is willing to cooperate with
Turkey to boost trade relations between the two countries, Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has affirmed.
Receiving Turkish Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of State Bulent Arinc in Hanoi on Feb.
22, PM Dung said the Vietnamese government will facilitate Turkish
businesses’ investment in Vietnam .
Vietnam and
Turkey are seeking measures to raise bilateral trade to 2 billion USD
in several years to come from the current 800 million USD, he said.
PM
Dung also spoke highly of the future signing of a cooperation deal on
technical standard along with agreements on the avoidance of double
taxation and investment protection between the two countries.
He also asked the Turkish government to consider the removal of
anti-dumping taxes on some goods items imported from Vietnam with
the aim of boosting bilateral cooperation.
The PM expressed
his belief that with the efforts by both countries, the Vietnam-Turkey
friendship would be more fruitful in all sectors.
Deputy
PM Bulent Arinc, who is in Vietnam to attend the fifth session of
the Vietnam-Turkey Joint Committee on Trade and Economy, said he was
pleased to see the development of bilateral ties in the recent past,
especially in trade, tourism, culture, adding that the joint committee
is making efforts to build cooperation orientation in the coming time.
Many
Turkish enterprises want to invest in Vietnam and enjoy favourable
conditions on investment procedures created by the Vietnamese
government, the Deputy PM said.
He also said that Turkey
would deal with the issue of anti-dumping taxes on Vietnamese imports
in accordance with WTO regulations.
The same day, Deputy
PM and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem had a meeting with his Turkish
counterpart Bulent Arinc, during which he recalled his good impressions
while visiting Turkey in June 2009.
Deputy PM Khiem
expressed his pleasure to see the development of the Vietnam-Turkey
multifaceted cooperation and asked the two sides to increase
high-ranking visits to further strengthen bilateral ties.
Deputy
PM Bulent Arinc showed his admiration for Vietnam’s fast development,
affirming that Turkey wants to boost multisided cooperation with
Vietnam.
The two Deputy PMs agreed to raise bilateral
trade to 1 billion USD in 2011 and enhance cooperation in education,
culture, tourism and transportation.
The two sides should sign
agreements on Investment Encouragement and Protection and Avoidance of
Double Taxation to create a legal framework for long-term cooperation,
they said.
At their meeting the same day, Vice State President
Nguyen Thi Doan and Deputy PM Bulent Arinc shared the view that though
being geographically far from each other, the relations between Vietnam
and Turkey have developed.
While stressing that the
two countries need to boos cooperation in investment, agriculture,
industry and finance and banking, Vice President Doan expressed her hope
that Turkey soon recognises Vietnam as a market economy, and the
two countries’ related agencies need to exchange information to avoid
trade barriers to create favourable conditions for goods of both
countries to enter respective market.
Deputy PM Bulent Arinc
informed his host of the result of the meeting of the Vietnam-Turkey
joint committee, affirming that Turkey always attaches importance to
cooperation with Vietnam, particularly in trade, tourism, culture
and education.
Turkey wants to cooperate closely with
Vietnam within the framework of the WTO of which the two countries
are members, he said./.