BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

23/12/2005

Vietnam expects to directly export to Belarus

Vietnam expects to be allowed to directly export seafood and farming produce to Belarus, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan at a working session with the Belarus-Vietnam Inter-governmental Committee on December 22.

Deputy PM Khoan expressed pleasure at the ever-growing co-operative relations between Vietnam and Belarus and expressed his hope that the annual Inter-governmental meeting would increase the two countries' co-operation in different areas.

Deputy Foreign Minister Gaisenov, who is also Chairman of the Belarus-Vietnam Committee on Economic, Commercial, Scientific and Technological Co-operation heading the Belarus delegation, affirmed Belarus' great demand for Vietnamese goods, notably rice, seafood and other farming products.

He pledged Belarus' commitment to co-operate with Vietnam on engineering, tyre and tube mass production, tractor manufacturing, transfer of microchip technology and chemicals production.

The Vietnam-Belorussia Inter-governmental Committee on Economic, Commercial, Scientific and Technological Co-operation gather for its third session in Hanoi on December 22-23.

The Vietnamese delegation to the session was led by Deputy Trade Minister Le Danh Vinh, who is also the Chairman of the Vietnam Sub-committee, and the Belorrusian delegation, by Deputy Foreign Minister Gaisenov, who is also Chairman of the Belorussia Sub-committee.

The two sides reviewed the implementation of a MoU signed at the Committee's fourth session and worked out solutions to increase co-operation in economics, commerce, science and technology. They also agreed on measures to boost two-way trade.

The two sides also encouraged Vietnam's farm product exports to Belorussia as well as co-operation between the two countries' banks.

In addition, they agreed to accelerate exchanges of information and relations between Vietnamese and Belorussian businesses on the basis of strengthening operations of the local commercial chambers, and co-operation and promotion of activities relating to the transfer of Belorussia's technology to Vietnam, and co-operation in the areas of oil and gas, education, sports, tourism, aviation and commerce. (VNA)

Source:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/news/231205/domestic_vnex.htm