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Conference features Africa-Vietnam cooperation
  • | hanoitimes | August 05, 2010 05:20 PM

The second Vietnam-Africa International Forum will take place in Hanoi from August 17-19, 2010, where more than 40 international delegations will chart out bilateral cooperation for sustainable development.

Participants will include the United Nations Undersecretary General and Special Advisor o­n Africa, 12 African ministers, and many African scholars and entrepreneurs.

The forum will focus o­n multi-sector and multifaceted cooperation, especially in food security, mining, poverty reduction, trade, and grooming human resources for sustainable development, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

At the forum, Vietnam plans to sketch out a cooperation roadmap for the next decade that includes a legal framework, priority areas, and specific measures for strengthening cooperation, said the ministry in a press release.

The event, which coincides with the end of the National Action Plan to Promote Vietnam-Africa Cooperation for the 2004-2010 period, is expected to see the signing of an agreement to waive visas for diplomatic and official passport holders travelling between Vietnam and Burkina Faso, or between Vietnam and Egypt, and an agreement o­n Vietnam-Seychelles cooperation in economics, culture, technology and science.

On the sidelines of the forum will be meetings between international delegates and Vietnamese leaders, business meetings, and an exhibition of Vietnamese exports at the National Convention Centre.

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