HCM City, Belgian locality look for closer ties
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Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong made the statement at a meeting with visiting Governor of Belgium’s East Flanders province Jan Briers on March 10.
While briefing the guest on the city’s recent development, Phong affirmed the exchange of visits of the two localities’ officials has contributed to strengthening the Vietnam-Belgium relationship and links between Ho Chi Minh City and East Flanders in particular.
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| Chairman of HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (C) and Governor of Belgium’s East Flanders province Jan Briers (the second from the left) |
He suggested East Flanders officials facilitate Ho Chi Minh City firms’ operation in the Belgian locality, helping them connect with more local enterprises in the coming time.
He said he looks forward to stronger cooperation between East Flanders and other Belgian localities with the Vietnamese locality, thus increasing two-way trade value as well as the number of investment projects in Ho Chi Minh City.
For his part, Jan Briers said East Flanders’s authority always maintains close relations with Ho Chi Minh City, adding that the win-win cooperation between the two localities is positive.
He affirmed that his visit to Ho Chi Minh City demonstrates East Flanders’s confirmation to promote cooperation programmes between the two localities, bringing interests to both sides.
He expressed his hope that the two sides will work to jointly organise trade and investment promotion activities, aiming to bolstering links across fields.
