Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev left Ho Chi Minh City on October
31, concluding his State visit to Vietnam from October 27-31 at the
invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.
During
the visit, President Plevneliev held talks with President Truong Tan
Sang and met with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, National
Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
At the meetings, Plevneliev and the Vietnamese
leaders discussed major orientations and agreed on specific measures to
boost cooperation in many fields, especially in economics-trade,
education-training, culture-tourism and security-defence.
They also deliberated on a new economic cooperation model in order to
elevate the two countries’ relationship to a strategic partnership in
the future, while exchanging views on regional and international issues
of common concern.
The two sides also agreed to
create all favourable conditions for both countries’ businesses and
investors to study the markets and seek new partners in both countries,
especially in the fields of infrastructure development, urban and public
transport system planning and development, energy, environmental
protection, food processing, water management and irrigation.
During his stay, President Plevneliev witnessed the signing of a
cooperation agreement between the Vietnam Academy of Science and
Technology and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a memorandum of
understanding on information exchange cooperation between the Vietnam
News Agency and the Bulgarian News Agency and those between the Vietnam
Ship Science and Technology Institute and Bulgaria’s Institute of Metal
Science.
Plevneliev also met with former
Vietnamese students in Bulgaria and enjoyed an art performance by
Bulgarian artists, while attending the inauguration ceremony of an
economic and trade office in Ho Chi Minh City and visiting several
cultural and historical monuments in Hanoi, Quang Ninh province and Ho
Chi Minh City.-VNA