President Nguyen Xuan Phuc receives New Zealand Ambassador | Policy

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and New Zealand Ambassador to Vietnam Traiden Dobson. Photo: VNA

HANOI (VNA) – President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received New Zealand Ambassador to Vietnam Triden Dobson on October 26, in recognition of his many important activities aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two countries.

Ambassador Triden Dobson expressed his respect and desire to promote the exchange between Vietnamese and Maori cultures in New Zealand.

She recalled the events of July 2020 when Prime Ministers of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the upgrading of relations between Vietnam and New Zealand to the level of a strategic partnership, marking the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and the New Zealand ambassador said that she had made efforts to strengthen bilateral relations to the extent of its potential. cooperation.

On this occasion, the Vietnamese president thanked New Zealand for its support of Vietnam with 30,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Emphasizing that New Zealand is one of Vietnam’s important economic partners, Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the ambassador to coordinate to promote exchanges of high-level delegations; Signing the action plan to implement the strategic partnership this year. Facilitating travel, trade and investment in industries, infrastructure, renewable energies, clean technologies, agriculture, etc.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc proposed to the two sides strengthening links between schools and universities, and cooperation in the field of vocational training; to re-establish tourism cooperation; Strengthen exchanges between the two peoples. The president said that Vietnam always creates favorable conditions for New Zealand companies to invest in Vietnam.

The president wants the two countries to aim for $2 billion in commercial sales by 2024.

On this occasion, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, through the Ambassador, has sent an invitation to the Prime Minister of New Zealand to visit Vietnam in due course. – VNA