Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Hieu (Photo: VNA) At the fifth meeting of the Vietnam-South Africa Intergovernmental PartnershipForum on economic, trade, science, technology and cultural cooperation held online on April 14, Hieu highlighted the growth of theVietnam-South Africa ties over the past nearly three decades with numerousachievements in important areas, and noted that South Africa is currently Vietnam's largest tradepartner in Africa.
For her part, South African Deputy Minister of InternationalRelations and Cooperation Candith Mashego-Dlamini underlined the importantposition of Vietnam in South Africa’s external policy for Asia and SoutheastAsia in particular, and welcomed the sound progress in the Vietnam-South Africa relationsas well as the close coordination at multilateral forums.
Participants reviewed the cooperation outcomes between Vietnam and Africa afterthe fourth meeting of the forum in areas of politics, diplomacy, trade,investment, agriculture, defence, security, education, training, science,technology, justice, tourism and environment, as well as partnership amonglocalities. They also sought specific measures to enhance the efficiency andfurther deepen the already sound partnership between the two countries.
Both sides agreed to maintain high-level meetings anddelegation exchanges, strengthen mutual support at regional andinternational forums, promote the efficiency of bilateral cooperationmechanisms, and further boost economic cooperation to match the good bilateral politicalrelations and the scales of the two economies.
They will coordinate closely to expand the scale andstructure of trade while increasing cooperation in industry,agriculture, investment and tourism.
For her part, South African Deputy Minister of InternationalRelations and Cooperation Candith Mashego-Dlamini underlined the importantposition of Vietnam in South Africa’s external policy for Asia and SoutheastAsia in particular, and welcomed the sound progress in the Vietnam-South Africa relationsas well as the close coordination at multilateral forums.
Participants reviewed the cooperation outcomes between Vietnam and Africa afterthe fourth meeting of the forum in areas of politics, diplomacy, trade,investment, agriculture, defence, security, education, training, science,technology, justice, tourism and environment, as well as partnership amonglocalities. They also sought specific measures to enhance the efficiency andfurther deepen the already sound partnership between the two countries.
Both sides agreed to maintain high-level meetings anddelegation exchanges, strengthen mutual support at regional andinternational forums, promote the efficiency of bilateral cooperationmechanisms, and further boost economic cooperation to match the good bilateral politicalrelations and the scales of the two economies.
They will coordinate closely to expand the scale andstructure of trade while increasing cooperation in industry,agriculture, investment and tourism.
Vietnam and South Africa underscored thesignificance of stronger partnership in defence, security, justice,environment, science-technology, education and training, and shared interest toexpand cooperation to areas of each other’s demand and strength such asconstruction, information, communications and labour.
The two sides also agreed on measures to effectivelyimplement signed agreements and to speed up the process of negotiations andsigning of important cooperation deals, and proposed ideas to remove obstaclesand difficulties in bilateral cooperation.
Concluding the meeting, the two sides concurred to organisethe next meeting of the forum in South Africa in 2024./.
The two sides also agreed on measures to effectivelyimplement signed agreements and to speed up the process of negotiations andsigning of important cooperation deals, and proposed ideas to remove obstaclesand difficulties in bilateral cooperation.
Concluding the meeting, the two sides concurred to organisethe next meeting of the forum in South Africa in 2024./.
VNA
