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Vietnam, New Zealand strive to bring trade ties to US$1.7 billion by 2020
Phuong Dung 10:30, 2016/12/04
During the talks between Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully in Auckland on December 2, the two leaders agreed to strive for bilateral economic and trade ties in order to reach US$1.7 billion by 2020, making economic co-operation a pillar of bilateral ties.
 
 Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh ® and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh ® and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh met with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully in Auckland on December 2 during his official visit to New Zealand from December 1-3.
At the talks, the two sides noted with joy the development of the bilateral comprehensive partnership, looking towards a strategic partnership. 
They lauded the Action Programme for 2013-16 and agreed to work on extending the programme for 2016-19. 
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh highlighted that relations between the nations’ private sectors continues to expand with ever increasing collaboration in areas such as agri-business, clean technologies, disaster management, aviation, tourism, defence and education.

 
During the talks between Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully in Auckland
During the talks between Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully in Auckland
They also agreed to enhance co-operation in national defence and security, education, people-to-people exchange and labour issues. 
The two leaders agreed to boost affiliation in agriculture. New Zealand will help Vietnam with training and technological transfer to ensure productivity and quality of Vietnamese agricultural products, as well as food safety. 
Foreign Minister Murray McCully told  that New Zealand would maintain scholarships to study English for Vietnamese officials while stepping up co-operation between education institutions of the two countries. 
New Zealand considers Vietnam a priority partner in the region, he said, and calling on the two countries to boost co-operation. 
The minister also suggested the two sides discuss products prioritised for exports and imports of each nation. 
New Zealand will work with Vietnam to assess risks to Vietnamese fruits while facilitating the sale of Vietnamese farm produces and seafood in the market, he affirmed.
New Zealand pledges to continuing providing official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam, especially in education, human resources, agriculture and rural development, and climate change response, Murray McCully said.  
Host and guest stressed the significance of the direct air route between Vietnam’s HCM City and Auckland of New Zealand, which, they said, had strengthened exchanges between the two countries’ citizens and tourism connectivity. 
The two officials emphasised the need to increase exchanges at all-levels and between the two nations’ localities, along with carrying forward bilateral co-operation mechanisms such as political consultations between the two foreign ministries and the joint committee on economic and trade co-operation. 
They will strive for bilateral economic and trade ties to reach US$1.7 billion by 2020, making economic co-operation a pillar of bilateral ties. 
The two leaders used the occasion to exchange views on regional and international issues of shared concern, including the latest developments of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to which both Vietnam and New Zealand are signatories, as well as Vietnam’s hosting the APEC Year in 2017. 
The two sides underscored the need to ensure peace, stability, security, safety and freedom of navigation and overflight in the region; respect international law as well as diplomatic and legal processes; settle disputes by peaceful measures on the basis of international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; not to take actions escalating tensions; and not to use or threaten to use force.
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