VN attaches importance to ties with Sri Lanka
VGP – Viet Nam always attaches importance to the traditional friendship and multi-facted cooperation with Sri Lanka.
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Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh and Sri Lankan Minister of Industry and Trade Rishad Bathiudeen, Ha Noi, August 21, 2014 - Photo: VGP. |
He also highly valued the outcomes of the talks held earlier on the same day between the two countries’ trade ministers. Both sides agreed to lift up the two-way trade value to US$1 billion in the time to come.
Viet Nam expects that Sri Lanka would create favorable conditions for Vietnamese investors to do business, particularly in such fields of petroleum and aquaculture in the South Asian country.
At the talks with Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Badiutheen suggested Vietnamese exporters take part in supplying rice for his country as it is in need of buying about 15,000 tons.
He also suggested Vietnam share more experience to boost exports.
Both sides agreed to soon establish an inter-subcommittee on trade and speed up the realisation of a memorandum of understanding on oil and gas and mechanics cooperation./.
By Thuy Dung
