VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is ready to increase agricultural cooperation with Angola, sending experts, providing higher education and facilitating businesses, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan affirmed.

The Vice President made the remark while receiving a visiting high-level delegation of Angola, headed by Minister of Science and Technology Joao Baptista Ngandajina in Hanoi on April 28.

Vice President Doan and Minister Joao Baptista Ngandajina agreed that the two countries would actively implement the framework agreement on economic, scientific and technical cooperation, the trade agreement, the agreement on visa exemption for holders of diplomatic and official passports and the protocol on oil and gas cooperation.

The Vice President thanked Angola for supporting Vietnam in the past struggle for national liberation as well as the country to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. She also praised Angola for recent recognition of Vietnam’s full market economy.

Minister Joao Baptista Ngandajina, who is in Vietnam to attend the 4th meeting of the Vietnam-Angola Inter-governmental Committee, thanked the Vietnamese Government for sending medical and education experts to Angola during the war.

He expressed his belief that Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh’s visit to Angola in earlier this month and the Vietnam-Angola Inter-governmental Committee’s meeting would further boost friendship and bilateral cooperation.

(Source: VNA)