shington D.C (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his entourage met overseas Vietnamese businesses and intellectuals in Houston, Texas after leaving Washington D.C on June 25 afternoon (local time).
At the meeting, PM Dung underscored that the Party and State have placed importance on the national solidarity policy with the aim of building Vietnam a strong country of wealthy people and just, democratic and civilised society.
“The overseas Vietnamese community is an inseparable part of the Vietnamese nation”, the PM said, adding that the Vietnamese State always has responsibility for them.
According to PM Dung, almost all of the community of 3.2 million overseas Vietnamese, including half in the US , have well integrated into their residential countries and whole-heartedly love their mother land.
Among them, about 400,000 people holding university degrees and higher have been making great contributions to the bilateral cooperation between Vietnam and the US , the PM noted.
The PM also expressed his wish that overseas Vietnamese would continue solidarity and mutual assistance, and maintain the traditional cultural characters and their love to the homeland, thus contributing to their residential countries’ development and serving as a bridge for the bilateral relations between Vietnam and these countries.
Earlier, in Washington D.C. , PM Dung attended an education meeting education held by the US Department of State where the two sides agreed to increase the number of Vietnamese students in US universities and colleges, especially PhD students.
He also took part at a US-Vietnam business forum by the US-ASEAN Business Council in coordination with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and met with several leading groups of the US .
The government leader called on US universities to boost cooperation with Vietnam , particularly in science, technology, postgraduate education and high quality human resources training.
Following the forum, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan and US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on education cooperation.
Under the MoU, the two nations will encourage more and deeper cooperation between US and Vietnamese universities, increase the number of Vietnamese students studying at American universities and colleges, and develop training programmes for Vietnamese students.
Addressing the US-Vietnam Business Forum, which saw the attendance of numerous leaders of US leading corporations, PM Dung said the two nations will continue to promote their economic, trade and investment cooperation, considering it a foundation for deepening cooperative ties in all fields.
“Thee Government of Vietnam will strictly implement its commitments to the international community and speed up the improvement of institutions and administrative reform in a bid to create a more open, transparent and favourable investment environment for foreign investors, including those from the US ,” he stressed.
After attending the forum, the PM witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on educational cooperation between the US Department of State and the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training, and a letter of intent on the supply of 10 Boeing 737 planes to Vietnam .
The inked agreements also include a strategic partnership deal between Vietnam Partners and the Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology (FPT), and a MoU on a joint plan of Tano Capital Llc and Global C&D to invest in a tourism complex in Vietnam ’s central Quang Nam province.
PM Dung is scheduled to attend a seminar dubbed “Education Initiative with Vietnam ” and a business forum, and meet with leaders from US leading groups on June 26. |
