HANOI (NNN-Xinhua) -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh met respectively with visiting Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna on Friday, affirming Vietnam's efforts to deepen the Vietnam-India strategic partnership.
According to the Vietnam News Agency, during their meetings, both sides agreed to expand and strengthen traditional friendship, multifaceted cooperation and exchanges of high-ranking delegations of leaders, and to create conditions to strongly promote the strategic partnership and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and India.
Both sides spoke highly of the 14th session of the Vietnam- India Joint Committee on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation held in Hanoi on the same day, saying that its results would make a strong contribution to promoting the two countries' relations, particularly in trade, investment, science and technology.
The Vietnamese prime minister said he wished the two sides would effectively implement bilateral agreements and join hands to prepare for the upcoming official visit to India by Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, during which many important agreements are expected to be signed, bringing the two countries' relations to a new level.
The Indian foreign minister said India wanted to expand its strategic partnership with Vietnam, and pledged to offer more financial assistance to Vietnam in the near future, with many incentives.
He said that during his current visit to Vietnam, the two sides inaugurated the Indian government-funded high quality information and communication technology human resource center (ARC-ICT), prepared for the launch of an Indian culture center in Hanoi and assisted a project to restore the Cham tower at My Son, in Quang Nam province. They also discussed preparations for celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam-India diplomatic ties.
Both sides agreed that the 15th session of the Vietnam-India Joint Committee on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation would be held in 2013. -- NNN-XINHUA
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