Vietnam strengthens ties with Bulgaria

Vietnam always attaches much importance to strengthening traditional friendship and co-operative ties with Bulgaria, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan said during her five-day visit to Bulgaria.

During her stay in Bulgaria from October 17-21, Ms Doan held talks with Vice President Angel Martin, met with President Georgi Parvanov and Vice Chairman of the Parliament G. Pirinski, attended a Vietnam-Bulgaria Business Forum, visited Sofia Economic University, and met with the Vietnamese community in Bulgaria.

During meetings with Bulgarian leaders, Ms Doan expressed her delight at witnessing country’s positive changes during its process of development and integration into the Europe and the world. She thanked Bulgarian State and people for their assistance in Vietnam’s past struggle for independence and current efforts toward national construction and development.

Bulgarian leaders praised Vietnam’s achievements in the renewal process, especially since the post global financial crisis and its position and prestige in the regional and international arena. They congratulated Vietnam on successfully assuming the ASEAN chair in 2010.

They said Bulgaria wants to continue expanding co-operative relations with Vietnam, especially in politics, diplomacy, economics and trade, education and training, defence and security, labour export, and tourism.

The two sides agreed that the traditional ties of friendship and co-operation between the two countries are developing well, but that, economic, trade, and investment relations are short of their potential.

They also discussed measures to support each other in strengthening ties with EU and ASEAN.

On the occasion, Ms Doan presented Friendship Medals to Bulgarian journalist K. Catdrinnova and Vice Chairman of the Vietnam-Bulgaria Friendship Association, S. Dimitrova, who have contributed to promoting Vietnam’s image and enhancing traditional friendship ties between the two countries. – VOV

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Posted by VBN on Oct 21 2010. 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