Fostering Vietnam-Morocco friendship and co-operation

Fostering Vietnam-Morocco friendship and co-operation

The present visit to Vietnam by Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi will contribute to boosting the friendship and multifaceted co-operation between the two countries.
Welcoming the first visit to Vietnam by a Moroccan PM since the two countries established diplomatic relations on March 27 1961, we are happy to witness the ties between the two countries has developed well in recent years. In March 2006, Vietnam and Morocco opened embassies and appointed resident ambassadors to each other’s capital cities.The two countries promoted exchange of different-level delegations such as the trips to Morocco by PM Phan Van Khai in November 2004, National Assembly Chaiman Nguyen Van An in December 2005. And Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives Abdelouahed Radi came to visit Vietnam in March 2003, Minister of Sea Fisheries Rafe in May 2003 and Special Envoy of the King of Morocco Fihri in July 2005 and August 2006. The two sides signed the Trade Agreement in 2001, the Framework Agreement on Economic, Cultural, Scietific and Technological Co-operation and other documents. Bilateral trade value between Vietnam and Morocco has been increasing and reached US$8.5 million in 2004, US$10.7 in 2006 and US$45 million in 2007. At the first meeting of the Joint Committee for Co-operation between Vietnam and Morocco held in Rabat in March 2008, the two sides worked out measures to boost bilateral co-operation in many areas.
The four-day visit by PM Abbas El Fassi is aiming at further promoting the two countries’ friendship and multi-faceted co-operation, especially in economics and trade.The two countries are discussing concrete ways to foster co-operation in a context both countries are members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Vietnam is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2008-2009 term.
May the Vietnam visit by the Moroccan PM be crowned with success, raising the friendship and co-operation between the two countries to a new stage of development, thus contributing to happiness and prosperity of the two nations.
NHAN DAN