Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim at the Vietnam-Turkey Business Forum (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Turkish Prime Minister
Binali Yildirim left Hanoi on August 24 afternoon, concluding his three-day
official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
During his trip, PM Yildirim held talks with PM
Phuc, met with National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, and attended
the Vietnam-Turkey Business Forum.
The Turkish PM also laid a wreath at the Heroic Martyrs
Monument, paid homage to late President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum, and
called at the Temple of Literature and the Ethnology Museum.
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At the meetings, the Vietnamese and Turkish
leaders agreed to increase the exchange of delegations at all levels and
encourage cooperation between ministries, sectors and localities of the two
countries.
PM Yildirim affirmed Turkey’s support for
Vietnam’s efforts to maintain stability in the region in general and the East
Sea in particular.
He advocated the standpoints of Vietnam and
other ASEAN member countries to settle disputes in the East Sea through peaceful
measures and dialogues in line with international law.
Vietnam and Turkey pledged to raise two-way
trade to 4 billion USD by 2020 through trade and investment promotion activities.
They agreed to strengthen coordination in
transport, particularly in navigation, shipbuilding, crew member training, and
encourage cooperation between their airlines such as Turkish Airline and
Vietnam Airlines, in addition to cooperation in science-technology,
culture-education, security-defence, and people-to-people exchanges.
In 2018, the two countries will jointly organise
activities to celebrate the 40th founding anniversary of their diplomatic ties.
Vietnam proposed Turkey soon recognise its
market economy and remove unreasonable taxes on Vietnamese exports such as
footwear, fibre, conveyor belt, air conditioners, and mobile phones.
The two PMs witnessed the signing of an
agreement between Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance and Turkey’s Ministry of
Customs and Trade on administration cooperation and assistance in customs; a
Memorandum of Understanding between Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and
Investment and Turkey’s Ministry of Economy on partnership in developing export
processing and special economic zones; and a plan to implement cooperation
between Vietnam’s Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, and
Turkey’s Standards Institution in 2017-2018.-VNA