RoK Willing to Boost Ties with Vietnam: NA Speaker Kim
The Republic of Korea (RoK) is willing to boost ties with Vietnam and the RoK parliament will give priority to issues relating to the two countries’ relations, its Speaker Kim Hyong O said in Hanoi November 15.
The visiting guest made the commitment at a reception given by his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Phu Trong, the Vietnamese government said.
National Assembly Speaker Kim’s trip, slated from Nov 14-18, follows the visit by PM Lee Myung-bak on Oct 20-22 in which the two nations declared the strategic partnership relationship.
The Korean top legislator offered detail measures to enhance the bilateral relations including the approval of a budget to support Vietnamese brides in South Korea, exchange of both countries’ youths, assistance of Korean investors operating in Vietnam and stronger cooperation in various fields particularly heavy industry, high tech.
He proposed the two nations should closely cooperate in 2010 when Vietnam will take over the presidency of ASEAN and South Korea will chair the Group of Twenty (G-20).
The host gladly informed Speaker Kim of the fine development of bilateral ties since resuming diplomatic ties in 1992.
Around 500,000 people from the two countries visit each other annually and nearly 100,000 RoK citizens are working currently in Vietnam and the same number of Vietnamese are living and working in the RoK.
Trade between Vietnam and the RoK reached US$8.85 billion and the two sides target to raise the figure to US$20 billion in 2015.
By late Feb this year, the RoK was Vietnam’s leading investor with more than 2,000 projects totaling US$16 billion.
The RoK has already granted the “market economy status†to Vietnam during PM Lee’s latest visit. (Chinhphu.vn)
Tags: Vietnam business news, Vietnam Korea corporation
Posted by VBN on Nov 17 2009. Filed under Int'l Cooperation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
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