The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted the fifth joint committee between the UAE and Vietnam in Hanoi. The meeting was chaired by the UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, while the Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Hung Dien, chaired the meeting.
A number of diplomats and high-level government officials from both sides participated in the ministerial meeting of the joint committee, where the bilateral talks included a group of sectors and areas of common interest, the most important of which are trade, investment, digital technology, agriculture, energy, transportation, higher education, culture, tourism, and work.
Al-Zeyoudi met with Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Tran Le Quang, and a number of private sector companies, where they discussed strengthening trade relations and looked at promising sectors for achieving further growth, especially since the UAE is the first Arab trading partner of Vietnam, with non-oil bilateral trade amounting to eight billion dollars in 2022.
Al-Zeyoudi praised the strong relations between the UAE and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, noting that the work of the joint committee in its fifth session comes as a continuation of bilateral efforts and ongoing meetings, with the aim of strengthening cooperation and partnerships between the two countries in many vital sectors.
For his part, Dr. Nguyen Hung Dien highlighted Vietnam’s interest in pushing the level of UAE-Vietnamese bilateral relations to broader horizons, and enhancing cooperation between the two countries in various fields, in a way that achieves the interests of the two countries and the two peoples.
At the conclusion of the ministerial meeting of the joint committee, the minutes of the meeting and a number of agreements agreed upon between the Emirati and Vietnamese sides were signed.
2023-10-08 22:05:57
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