PM meets top Haitian legislators

On the morning of March 29 (Vietnam time) PM Nguyen Tan Dung and National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with President of the Senate Simon Dieuseul Desras and President of the House of Representatives Jacques Stevenson Thimoleon.

The Haitian legislators spoke highly of Vietnamese NA leaders’ participation in the visit which shows the two nations’ recognition of importance to enhancing the role played by the two legislative bodies in fostering the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

Bilateral ties have been built on the basis of the mutual friendship, solidarity and support for the past struggles for national liberation and for the current development processes, they said.

Haitian NA leaders welcomed PM Nguyen Tan Dung and his delegation

The two sides expressed satisfaction with the growing economic links in recent times demonstrated by food security cooperation and the efficient telecom model of NATCOM – a joint venture between the military-run telecom group of Vietnam (Viettel) and the Haitian Ministry of Economics and Finance.

PM Dung said his visit’s aim is to look for avenues to expand the bilateral cooperation in trade, construction, infrastructure development, energy and agriculture among others while examining ways to fine-tune the legal framework for the bilateral ties.

PM Dung used the occasion to convey NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung’s invitations to Haitian parliamentary leaders to pay official visits to Vietnam.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung worked with top Haitian legislators.

He said he hopes that Haitian NA representatives will come to attend the 132^nd General Assembly of the Inter-Parliament Union (IPU-132) scheduled to take place in Vietnam in March 2015.

During his stay in Haiti, PM Dung toured NATCOM headquarters and laid wreaths at the Haitian Heroes’ Memorial.

Dung and his entourage left Haiti for their home country on the same day, ending their successful trip to the Caribbean nation.