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Deputy PM Phạm Gia Khiêm visits India

VNGOVNet – At the invitation of Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Deputy PM, Foreign Minister Phạm Gia Khiêm paid an official visit to India on February 26-28 during which he also co-presided over the 13th meeting of the Vietnam-India Joint-committee.

March 01, 2007 8:28 AM GMT+7

Within his visit, Deputy PM Phạm Gia Khiêm had a meeting with Indian PM Manmohan Singh; had talks with the hosting Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee; and met leaders of the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) and the Indian People’s Party (BJP).

In these meetings and talks, Deputy PM Phạm Gia Khiêm affirmed that Vietnam always wishes to enhance and develop the bilateral friendship and multifaceted cooperation for the sake of mutual interests, peace, stability and cooperation in Asia and in the world. India’s leaders also stressed that India attaches great importance to its traditional and cooperative relationship with Vietnam which is considered a key partner in India’s “Look East” policy. The leaders of BJP, CPI and CPI-M expressed their hope to further cooperate with the Communist Party of Vietnam and pledged to continue their support and contribution to the good development of the Vietnam-India friendship.

Meeting some Indian big groups and enterprises who are doing business and investment in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Deputy PM highly hailed their efforts in promoting trade and investment in Vietnam, especially in information technology, electricity, oil and gas, metallurgy, coal mining, transport, agriculture, food processing, and medicine. At the moment, Vietnam and India, the two emerging economies, are facing many great opportunities for cooperation, the Vietnamese Deputy PM emphasized. And the two countries should develop the bilateral relationship to a new height, he added.

On February 27, in New Delhi, Deputy PM, Foreign Minister Phạm Gia Khiêm and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee co-presided over the 13th meeting of the Vietnam-India Joint-committee for economic, trade, scientific and technical cooperation (VIJC). In the meeting, the two sides agreed to increase the two-way trade turnover to US$ 2 billion by 2010. India pledged to take necessary measures to facilitate Vietnamese goods’ entry into Indian markets. The two sides also agreed to boost cooperation in energy, oil and gas, steel production, mineral exploitation and processing; improve the efficiency of the use of ODA from India; design new cooperative projects in biotechnology, IT, agriculture, healthcare, remote sensing, oceanography and training labor force for Vietnam’s software industry.

At the end of the meeting, the two sides signed the Memorandum of Understanding; the Report on Cooperation in 2004-2006 and the Vietnam-India Action Program for 2007-2009./.

By Hoàng Nguyên