Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, Benin counterpart hold phone talks

WVR/VNA - On August 3, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held a phone talks with his counterpart from Benin Olushegun Adjadi Bakari, assuring that Vietnam always values and wishes to foster its traditional friendship and cooperation with Benin.
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, Benin counterpart hold phone talks
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, Benin counterpart hold phone talks: Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son at the phone talks. (Photo: WVR/Tuan Viet)

Foreign Minister Son stressed that there remains a huge room for bilateral cooperation so that both sides need to step up bilateral economic ties.

Expressing impression on Vietnam’s socio-economic achievements over the past time, Bakari spoke highly of Vietnam’s role and position on the international arena. He stressed that Benin could learn from Vietnam’s development experience.

The two Foreign Ministers agreed to facilitate the exchange of delegations, create favourable conditions for the two countries’ businesses and investors to share market information, promote trade-investment and cooperation in agriculture, science, telecoms and electronics.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, Benin counterpart hold phone talks
Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, Benin counterpart hold phone talks: Illustrative photo. (Photo: WVR)

They pledged to actively work together to soon sign the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the two foreign ministries, the agreement on visa exemption for diplomatic and official passport holders, and many other documents, thus creating a favourable legal framework for bilateral collaboration.

Foreign Minister Son reiterated his invitation to Minister Bakari to visit Vietnam soon. The Beninese Foreign Minister accepted the invitation with pleasure and expressed his belief that the visit will bring about new developments in the relationship between the two countries.

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(Source: WVR/VNA)