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Vietnam wishes to enhance cooperation with San Francisco: PM

Vietnam wants to promote the relationship between San Francisco and Vietnamese localities in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular in areas that the US city has strengths such as economics, trade, science, technology, digital transformation, and climate change response, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco London Breed at a meeting on May 17 morning (US time).
Vietnam wishes to enhance cooperation with San Francisco: PM ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) and Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco London Breed (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam wants to promote the relationship between SanFrancisco and Vietnamese localities in general and Ho Chi Minh City inparticular in areas that the US city has strengths such as economics, trade,science, technology, digital transformation, and climate change response, PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh told Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco LondonBreed at a meeting on May 17 morning (US time).

Vietnam identifies San Francisco, where many Vietnamese peopleare living in, as a key area to promote relations between localities of the twocountries, he said, adding that this is the reason why the city was the firstplace Vietnam opened its Consulate General in the US.

He suggested the two sides increase the exchange ofdelegations at all levels, promote people-to-people exchanges, cooperate inhuman resource training and healthcare capacity improvement, and encourage theirenterprises to cooperate in investment and business. He also askedthe city to continue creating favourable conditions for the community of about50,000 Vietnamese people.

Mayor London Breed expressed her honour to welcome PM Chinh andthe Vietnamese delegation to San Francisco which has had a twin relationship with Ho Chi Minh City fromvery early, even before the two countries officially normalised their relations.

Speaking highly of Vietnam’s socio-economic developmentachievements and pandemic prevention and reopening efforts, Breed said shewants to learn about Vietnam's measures to mobilise people to activelyparticipate in the pandemic fight, especially in the vaccination drive.

Regarding this issue, PM Chinh informed the mayor of themain features of Vietnam's pandemic prevention strategy, in which Vietnam takesthe people as the centre, the subject, the goal and the driving force; and putpeople's lives and health at first and foremost. Accordingly, all policies target thepeople and people must participate in the implementation, in which vaccinationis both a right and a responsibility of each citizen.

He also took the occasion to invite Mayor Breed to visitVietnam and Ho Chi Minh City so as to continue promoting the bilateral relations,contributing to developing the Vietnam-US ties in a more substantive and effectivemanner./.
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