Vietnam Enhances Trade, Investment, Oil Ties with Iraq
Vietnam always attaches importance to Iraq’s role and position in the Middle East and wishes to boost further the all-rounded cooperation with the Islamic nation, particularly in economy, trade, investment, oil and gas, a Vietnamese governmental official said in Baghdad.
Deputy Foreign Minister Doan Xuan Hung, who is visiting Iraq as special envoy of the Vietnamese prime minister April 6-9, conveyed the message by PM Nguyen Tan Dung to Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki on April 8
Hung is being accompanied by representatives from ministries of foreign affair, industry and trade, agriculture and rural development, PetroVietnam and several enterprises.
The Vietnamese PM also wrote in his letter he hoped the two countries would enhance coordination and mutual support at regional and international forum, especially at the UN Security Council.
The Iraqi leader for his part believed the two nations have huge potentials to boost the cooperation in agriculture, oil and gas and trade.
PM Nuri al-Maliki expressed wish Vietnam would soon reopen its embassy in Iraq to facilitate the bilateral relations.
Earlier, deputy minister Hung and his entourages worked with Iraqi Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Oil and Industry, the President of the National Investment Committee and the Permanent Deputy Agriculture Minister.
Iraqi officials pledged to create favorable conditions for Vietnamese enterprises to engage in Iraq reconstruction and export rice, tea, cement, iron and steel to the country. (The People, VNA)
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