Vietnam and Hungary have agreed on measures to promote
mutually-beneficial cooperation between the two countries in various
fields during Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan’s visit to
Hungary from July 28-31.
During his visit, Deputy
PM Nhan met with Acting National Assembly Speaker Istvan Jakab, held
talks with his counterpart Zsolt Semjen, visited the Paks nuclear power
plant and met with the Vietnamese community there.
At the
meetings, Hungarian leaders spoke highly of the socio-economic
achievements Vietnam has made over the past years, especially its
fairly high economic growth rate in the context of global crisis, as
well as the country’s position in the region and the world.
Deputy
PM Nhan thanked Hungary for its great support to the Vietnamese
people during the fight for independence in the past as well as the
present national construction and development while affirming Vietnam’s consistent policy of attaching importance to the traditional
friendship and multifaceted cooperation with Hungary.
Besides measures to enhance their bilateral cooperation, especially in
economic, trade, investment, human resources training, energy, culture,
tourism and sports, the two sides agreed to continue the exchange of
visits at different levels to further ties in specific sectors.
The Vietnamese leader also thanked Hungary for considering
Vietnam as a priority partner in its policy on official development
assistance (ODA) provision, and affirmed that Vietnam is willing to
create favourable conditions for Hungarian enterprises to strengthen
trade and investment ties with the Southeast Asian country.
The
two sides promised to encourage their businesses to meet and attend
seminars and trade fairs to learn about each other’s demands and
potentials.
They spoke highly of the results of the fourth
meeting of the Vietnam-Hungary Joint Committee on Economic Cooperation
(which took place in October, 2012 in Hanoi), noting that the two
countries need to collaborate to carry out the meeting’s outcomes and
improve the working efficiency of this cooperation mechanism.
The Hungarian side affirmed that it will continue to strengthen
education and training cooperation with Vietnam and create
favourable conditions for Vietnamese students to study in the country.
On the occasion, the Vietnamese Ministry of
Education and Training and the Hungarian Human Resources Ministry signed
an exchange programme for the 2013-2015 period, under which the
Hungarian side committed to provide 40 scholarships for Vietnamese
students every year.
Vietnam and Hungary will
also strengthen cooperation and mutual support at multilateral forums
and international organisations.
Hungarian leaders
spoke highly of the Vietnamese community in the country. The two sides
agreed that the community will be a bridge to further boost the
traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation between them.
During
the visit, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Thanh Son, Deputy Minister of
Science and Technology Tran Viet Thanh and Deputy Minister of Education
and Training Tran Quang Quy had separate working sessions with
Hungarian partners.-VNA