Thai media highlights joint cabinet retreat with Vietnam
(VOV) - Many major Thai newspapers have given wide coverage of the second Vietnam-Thailand Joint Cabinet Retreat, during which both sides agreed to raise two-way trade to US$18 billion by 2015.
At the retreat, the newspapers said, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Prime Minister Yingluck Shanawatra discussed the possibility of upgrading bilateral relationship to a strategic partnership. They agreed to cooperate in rice exports, rubber development, energy, oil and gas, and transportation and strengthen links along the East-West Economic Corridor.
The two government leaders also wanted to create more bilateral and multilateral cooperation channels, at both ASEAN and international levels and establish a joint committee to accelerate these strategies.
PM Shinawatra said the retreat indicated Vietnam’s determination to strengthen bilateral ties and invited her Vietnamese counterpart to visit Thailand. PM Dung highlighted the results of cooperation, especially in the political, security, and military fields.
According to the Thai News Agency, Deputy Prime Ministers and Ministers of Thailand and Vietnam also met for group discussions relating to such issues as politics-security, economics, and culture-society-education.