New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wraps up Vietnam visit
WVR/VNA - On November 17, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern left Ho Chi Minh , concluding her four-day official visit to Vietnam.
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| New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wraps up Vietnam visit: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (right) skates hands with Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern.(Photo: WVR Anh Son) |
During her stay, Prime Minister Ardern paid a courtesy visit to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, met President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, and held talks with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
Party General Secretary Trong said he expects the visit to open up a new development stage on the ground of past achievements, including cooperation in human resources development, education and training, agriculture and rural development; while Prime Minister Ardern expressed her hoped that the visit will further reinforce the bilateral strategic partnership.
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| Vietnam treasures relations with New Zealand: Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (R) and Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern. (Photo: VNA) |
Meeting President Phuc and Chairman Hue, Prime Minister Ardern emphasised that as a peace-loving country, New Zealand highly values the settlement of disputes in the East Sea via dialogue and peaceful measures with respect for international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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| New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wraps up Vietnam visit: President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (Photo: VNA) |
The Vietnamese leaders suggested that the New Zealand Prime Minister pay attention to promoting cooperation between the two countries in the new situation, suitable to their needs, especially the exchange of delegations as well as strengthening education-training cooperation and people-to-people exchanges. They proposed that seasonal direct flights should be resumed soon.
In her talks with Prime Minister Chinh, the two exchanged ideas on the socio-economic development situation of each country, bilateral cooperation relations and regional and international issues of mutual concern. They expressed their satisfaction at the effective and substantive development of bilateral relations over the past time.
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| New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wraps up Vietnam visit: National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue welcomed New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (Photo: Quochoi.vn) |
The two sides pledged to facilitate all-level visits and promote people-to-people and locality-to-locality exchanges. They agreed to make thorough preparations for the upcoming New Zealand visit by National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
The two Prime Ministers committed to expanding collaboration to other fields, including transnational crimes, terrorism, natural disasters and epidemics, along with defence and security cooperation, and suggested the relevant ministries and agencies to step up trade promotion activities and facilitate market access for agricultural products to reach the goal of bringing two-way trade turnover to 2 billion USD by 2024.
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern witnessed the signing ceremony of cooperation agreements in Hanoi, on November 14, 2022. (Photo: WVR/Anh Son) |
After the talks, the two Prime Ministers witnessed the signing ceremony of cooperation agreements between the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and the New Zealand's Ministry of Education, and between Vietnam's Ministry of Transport and New Zealand's Ministry of Transport on civil aviation cooperation.
Within the framework of the visit, the New Zealand Prime Minister laid a wreath at late President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, and attended the Vietnam-New Zealand Business Dialogue and an agriculture connection event (AgriConnectioNZ).
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| Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Minister of Trade and Export Growth and Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan witnessed the announcement ceremony of lemon and pomelo export. from Vietnam to New Zealand. (Photo: VNA) |
She also visited Ho Chi Minh City and joined the Women's Summit 2022 - with the theme "Women change the world", and met the business community and business women of New Zealand and Vietnam in the city.
(Source: WVR/VNA)
