The fourth meeting of the Vietnam-Argentina Inter-governmental
Committee on Cooperation took place in Buenos Aires on October 29-30,
discussing specific measures to boost bilateral collaboration for mutual
benefit.
The meeting was co-chaired by
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and the
Secretary of State for International Economic Relations at the
Argentinean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religions, Carlos Bianco.
Both sides agreed on mechanisms and specific
measures to enhance bilateral ties in economics, trade, investment,
agriculture, energy, technology, education, culture and health.
They expressed satisfaction with a rapid increase in two-way trade in
recent years despite global economic difficulties, sharing a target to
diversify traded products while considering ways to achieve balanced
bilateral trade.
The Vietnamese side wished to
export more tropical fruits, rice and coffee to Argentina, while the
Latin American country proposed accelerating quarantine negotiations to
allow it to sell citrus fruits, blueberry, pear, apple and cherry to
Vietnam.
At the meeting, the Argentinean side
also proposed signing memoranda of understanding on cooperation in
communications, industry and bio-technology between the two countries’
relevant ministries.
For the 2014-2016 period,
the two sides agreed to continue implementing projects related to
controlling hoof-and-mouth disease on cattle, preserving farm produce
post-harvest, increasing the quality of cattle-feed and applying
biological technology to producing high-productivity soybeans and rice
varieties.
The Argentinean side urged speeding
up negotiations on a cooperation programme between the two education
ministries on granting scholarships to talented persons in priority
fields during 2015-2018.
During his stay in
Argentina, Deputy Minister Tran Tuan Anh also met with Chief of the
Cabinet of Ministers Jorge Capitanich and Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Religions Hector Timerman.-VNA