2:54:27 PM | 2/28/2008
President S.R Nathan and his spouse will start a 5-day visit to from February 25 at the invitation of President Nguyen Minh Triet. This is the second time the Singaporean president will have visited , the first was in 2001.
Accompanying President Nathan are Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan, Members of Parliament Lam Pin Min and Wee Siew Kim and a business delegation.
During the discussion with the host President Nguyen Minh Triet, President Nathan noted that will enhance the cooperative ties in six fields added with urban and seaport logistics. The Singaporean leader also pledged to help train English teachers for and upgrade
During the stay in Vietnam, President Nathan will meet Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet, Party Chief Nong Duc Manh, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, government ministers, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Pham Quang Nghi and Mayor Nguyen The Thao.
Early last year, former Singaporean Mentor Minister Lee Kuan Yew during his five-day visit to from January 16 emphasized that the lesson for to learn is to turn an underdeveloped economy into an industrialized nation by advancing technologies and training human resource.
and are actively implementing the framework agreement on connecting co-operative areas including investment, finance-banking, trade-service, transportation, education and telecommunication.
The two-way trade reached US$6.4 billion in 2005 and over US$7 billion by November 2006. ranked second of 76 countries and territories investing in , with a total of 8.1 billion U.S. dollars.
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