The Vietnamese delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Le Zan Win visited Uzbekistan. As a part of its stay in the country the delegation took part at the third session of the Uzbek-Vietnamese intergovernmental commission for trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation.

Also, the Vietnamese delegation held bilateral meetings at various ministries and agencies in the country. At them the delegation members discussed the issues of further developing the bilateral cooperation.

Vietnam is one of dynamically developing country in Southeast Asia. At the moment, Vietnam implements 11 thousand projects with participation of foreign capital totaling 165 billion dollars.

The friendly relations between Uzbekistan and Vietnam are consistently strengthening. The successful visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Vietnam in March 1996 rendered a significant impetus to such cooperation.

At the moment, the bilateral documents that have been signed during the top-level visit to Vietnam are creating the necessary conditions for strengthening cooperation between Tashkent and Hanoi in politics, trade -economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres.

“Uzbekistan and Vietnam always enjoyed the friendly relations”, said Mr. Le Zan Win while speaking to the Informational Agency “Jahon”. “The Vietnamese people know Uzbekistan very well. Many of them have been well educated here and now they work in leading positions in various spheres of our country. We appraise our long-time friendship with our sincere, friendly and always hospitable Uzbek people”.

In the course of the third session of the intergovernmental commission for trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation we have pinpointed the main priority directions of bilateral cooperation for forthcoming period. As one of the directions we have defined the external trade which envisages the growth in goods turnover, he added.

“In particular, we have an opportunity to export tropical, agricultural products, seafood, goods of light industry – textile goods and footwear. In its turn, we could buy cotton, fertilizers, silk, construction materials, and various technical equipments from Uzbekistan. The Republic of Uzbekistan has an enormous potential in prospecting and extracting oil and gas”, Mr. Le Zan Win has also said.

According to him, one of directions of the Uzbek-Vietnamese cooperation is the cooperation in agricultural sphere. Uzbekistan is famous in the world as a world supplier of different kinds of agricultural products, including cotton, which we are keenly interested in to procure. Vietnam is also one of large producers and suppliers of tropical, agricultural products, as well as the natural rubber, coffee, tea, seafood.

“We hope for active cooperation in the sphere of science and education, training specialists and educational exchange programs. Taking into consideration that more than 3 thousand Vietnamese nationals studied at higher educational establishments of Uzbekistan, we could continue cooperation in this sphere successfully, setting direct contacts with higher educational and scientific-research establishments of two countries,” the head of the Vietnamese delegation said.

Mr. Le Zan Win has also said that Vietnam observes with a keen interest the considerable progress of Uzbekistan achieved in the years of independence.

“We are very glad of achievements of Uzbekistan. By the way I want to congratulate the Uzbek people on the 18 years of Independence and the 2200th anniversary of the city of Tashkent. We wish them further successes in socio-economic development of the country along. We also wish peace and prosperity,” Mr. Le Zan Win concluded.

Nasiba Sabirova reported this story for the Information Agency “Jahon”

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