Vietnam FM emphasizes need for strengthening ties with Iran

Foreign Minister of Vietnam Fam Bin Min in a meeting Tuesday morning with Iran’s Ambassador to his country, Seyyed Qavam Shahidi, said Hanoi attaches great importance to further strengthening of ties with Iran.According to IRNA, the Media Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy in Hanoi Mr. Min also stressed in the meeting that exchange of high ranking delegations would be necessary in order to achieve that objective, adding that his country would attend the upcoming NAM Conference in Tehran at highest possible level. Fam Bin Min also noted that closeness of the two countries is meanwhile a necessity in order to ensure the effective continuation of regional organizations’ activities, such as those of the ECO and the ASEAN, which would in turn ensure securing the Asian nations’ interests, including those of Iran and Vietnam. The Vietnamese foreign minister focusing on the two countries’ economic ties, too, said, “There are very good potentials for expansion of bilateral economic ties, such as the good market for the Iranian goods in Vietnam. The Iranian Ambassador Qawam Shahidi, too, in the meeting referring to the cultural ties between the two Asian countries, said that the cultural differences between the two countries are complementary of each other, adding, “In order to further expand those ties the two countries have taken long strides, such as allocation of annual university scholarships to Vietnamese students by Iran, establishment of Persian language and literature faculty at Faculty of Human Sciences of Hanoi University, donation of a number of Persian literature books, and sponsoring art and culture exhibitions in Vietnam, expressing hope that activities aimed at increasing the two nations’ insight about the other one would continue on both ends. The Iranian envoy further continued, “The two countries’ as your honor mentioned, have high potentials for expansion of economic ties, and I, too, believe the two countries’ economic ties are far beyond their capabilities and potentials, and I hope the exchange of high ranking delegations between the two countries would also solve that problem.” According to the report the two sides in the meeting also exchanged viewpoints on ways for further expansion of political, economic, technological, and economic ties.