Ho Chi Minh City will spare no effort to reinforce ties between
Vietnam and Hungary as well as those between the city and Hungarian
localities, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan
told visiting Hungarian President Ader Janos on November 29.
As the two countries are marking the 65th founding anniversary of
their diplomatic ties in early 2015, it is high time for them to
intensify friendship and cooperation in mutually concerned areas such as
education, investment-trade, and health care, Quan said.
The City and Hungary have also made strides in their collaboration, he
noted, elaborating that two-way trade reached 36 million USD so far
this year, a year-on-year increase of 30 percent, while the European
country now has three projects and three companies locating their
offices here.
The Vietnamese southern hub and
Hungary’s Budapest capital are accelerating the implementation of their
cooperation memorandum of understanding inked in March 2014, the
Chairman added.
However, he considered such outcomes
modest compared to huge cooperation potential between the two sides. He
suggested his city and Hungary research measures to curb climate
change’s influence since HCM City is forecast to be under climate
change’s heaviest impact in the world.
For his part,
President Ader Janos expressed his admiration for the city’s rapid
development, adding that his visit to HCM City aims to learn about local
wastewater treatment and water supply and business.
He proposed in-depth discussions with the city on climate change to
design concrete cooperation activities and further said both sides
should also enhance educational partnership, especially in fields that
Vietnam has demand for such as information technology and tourism which
are Hungary’s strengths.
The same day, the
Hungarian leader visited the Thu Duc Water Plant and the Thu Duc B.O.O
Water Plant and discussed with their managers on the facilities’
operations, technology and water prices.-VNA