US Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte said Thursday his country was willing to help Vietnam fulfill its target of training 10,000 doctoral candidates by 2020.
Negroponte, who is on a four-day working visit to Vietnam until September 14, said the two countries should work closely to discuss concrete cooperation in the years to come.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who met the US leader in Hanoi Thursday, applauded the outcome of Negroponte’s earlier working sessions with Vietnamese agencies to boost bilateral cooperation in various areas, particularly trade, investment, education and training, environment and the response to climate change and rising sea levels.
Earlier, the US Deputy Secretary of State worked with leaders of Vietnam’s ministries of foreign affairs, education and training, defense and public security.
At these meetings, the two sides discussed the bilateral relations that have developed positively in recent years, bringing benefits to the people of both countries.
Negroponte affirmed that the US wanted to cooperate with Vietnam in many areas, including bomb and mine clearing, provision of information about Vietnamese missing during the last war and resolving Agent Orange consequences. He thanked Vietnam for its effective cooperation in searching for US personnel listed as missing in action.
Also Thursday in Hanoi, Prime Minister Dung received Jack Straw, the UK’s Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, who was visiting Vietnam for the first time in an official capacity.
Dung expressed his wish that judicial cooperation between Vietnam and the UK would be boosted as a result of Straw’s visit, which will last until tomorrow.
In a meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart, Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong, Lord Chancellor Straw signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in law-making between the two governments.
Source: VNA
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