During the visit, the delegation had meetings and worked with Speaker of the Finnish Parliament Jussi Halla-Aho, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, Finnish Deputy Minister of Finance in charge of public administration Elina Laavi, Parliament's Director of Administration Pertti Rauhio, Chairperson of the Communist Party of Finland Liisa Taskinen and Chairman of the Finland-Vietnam Friendship Association Mauri Raveala.

Politburo member Truong Thi Mai meets Speaker of the Finnish Parliament Jussi Halla-Aho.

At the working meetings, Politburo member Truong Thi Mai expressed her pleasure at the fine relationship between the two countries.

She proposed that the two sides continue to promote the exchange of high-level delegations, promote economic cooperation, trade and investment, and strengthen cooperation in the fields of science, technology, creative innovation, forestry, telecommunications and people-to-people exchanges, to further promote the potential for cooperation, bringing bilateral relations to increasingly develop in substance.

Leaders of the Parliament, Government and political parties of Finland welcomed and spoke highly of the delegation's working visit, which made an important contribution to strengthening and deepening Finland-Vietnam relations.

Finnish leaders at all levels expressed their joy in the cooperative relationship between the two countries; affirming that Vietnam is Finland's most important trading partner in Southeast Asia, assessing that the two sides still have much potential for cooperation in fields such as energy, forestry and information technology.

They also suggested that the two sides take better advantage of the opportunities brought by the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement; at the same time, they also appreciate the contributions of the Vietnamese community in Finland.

On this occasion, Politburo member Mai and the delegation also visited the Vietnamese Embassy and met representatives of the Vietnamese community in Finland.

PM: Vietnam considers WB significant development partner

The Vietnamese Government always considers the World Bank (WB) a close friend and a significant development partner, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told WB Country Director in Vietnam Carolyn Turk during a reception in Hanoi on October 27.

Vietnamese, Algerian companies explore partnership chances

Vietnamese and Algerian businesses gained an insight into the African country’s market and bilateral economic and trade ties at a webinar on October 19.

Germany's Lower Saxony state interested in expanding partnership with Vietnam

Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), the second biggest state of Germany, is keen on promoting cooperation with Vietnam, especially in economy, and wants to receive more Vietnamese workers, Minister-President of the state Stephan Weil has been quoted by SZ, Germany's largest broadsheet newspaper, as saying.

Vietnam - Brazil Comprehensive Partnership

Brazil has always been the largest and most important partner of Vietnam in South America. Along with an increase in economic - trade cooperation, cultural - educational - tourism exchanges between the two countries continue to be strengthened, acting as bridges to bring the two countries’ peoples closer together.

PM calls on Vietnamese, US firms to help implement comprehensive strategic partnership

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 18 (local time) called on Vietnamese and US enterprises to take practical actions to help implement the two countries’ newly established comprehensive strategic partnership.

Source: NDO