Belarus, Vietnam promote bilateral trade ties
(VOV) - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Le Duong Quang has highlighted the Belarusian government’s constant support for Vietnam’s efforts to develop its national economy.
At the ninth session of the Vietnam-Belarus Inter-governmental Committee held in Hanoi on November 6, Quang said despite the impact of global economic downturn, two-way trade turnover between the two countries reached US$95.6 million by the end of June 2012.
This was thanks to the implementation of the resolutions of the eighth session of the committee, provisions under the economic cooperative programme in the 2011-2012 period, and agreements reached during Belarusian Prime Minister’s visit to Vietnam.
Both sides agreed that the growing exchange of goods between Vietnam and Belarus in recent years is still far from matching the potential of the two countries. They emphasized the need to implement the 2013-2015 economic cooperative programme between Vietnam and Belarus and pledged to facilitate the exchange of goods one way or another.
On this occasion, the Vietnam-Belarus trade centre has made it debut to help businesses of both countries further tighten trade ties.