Official welcome ceremony held for PM Chinh in Doha

Qatar is the final stop on PM Chinh’s trip to three Middle East nations. This marks the first official visit by a Vietnamese Prime Minister to Qatar in 15 years and comes at a time when the bilateral relations are flourishing, obtaining numerous tangible results. However, both sides have recognised that there remains huge potential to further foster bilateral cooperation, particularly in promising areas such as politics-diplomacy, economy, energy, tourism, and labour.

The visit is designed to promote the relationship in a more comprehensive and effective manner, particularly in market opening, high-quality investment attraction, and cooperation in labour, education, culture, sports, tourism, people-to-people exchange, and climate change response, as well as emerging fields like science -technology, clean energy, digital transformation, innovation, and the Halal industry.

Qatar is currently a great potential economic and investment partner for Vietnam, with last year’s two-way trade posting a year-on-year rise of 32% to US$497.2 million.

Vietnam’s major imports included gas, plastics, and chemicals, while its key exports were aquatic products, electrical wires and cables, wooden and bamboo products.

Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has been researching and accelerating investment projects, especially in the real estate and industrial sectors in Vietnam. Other cooperation areas such as education and labor have also seen many improvements recently.