Vietnam always places importance to and wants to promote multilateral
cooperation with Israel , Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has said.
NA Vice Chairwoman Ngan made the affirmation on October 31 in Hanoi
during her meeting with visiting Israeli Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development Yair Shamir.
She asked both sides
to increase exchanges of delegations at all level, share experience in
parliamentary work, and strengthen people-to-people exchange so as to
push up mutual understanding between the two legislative bodies and
peoples.
The NA Vice Chairwoman also voiced her
hopes that Israel will continue to support Vietnam in high-tech
and bio-technology application in agriculture.
For
his part, Minister Shamir said his visit aims to discuss ways to foster
agricultural cooperation between the two countries, in parallel with
talking with Israeli strategic firms in Vietnam .
He highlighted cooperation in agriculture, especially high-tech
agriculture, which always plays an important role in the two sides’
relations, asserting that Israel will continue to help Vietnam improve
workers’ professional knowledge as well as apply advanced techniques so
that it can obtain higher output.
He also expressed
his delight at expanding cooperation in education and pharmaceuticals
in order to contribute to improving Vietnam-Israel bilateral ties.-VNA