Ms Hoa hoped that apart from economic cooperation, the two countries will boost their cooperation in the filed of culture and promote exchanges among their youth unions and women’s unions in order to increase mutual understanding.

The Egyptian Minister was pleased to note that during the Vietnam-Egypt Inter-Governmental Committee’s third session, both sides focused on four key areas of cooperation, namely agriculture, aquaculture, pharmaceutical industry and tourism and agreed on the need for establishment of joint ventures to fully tap their cooperation potential.

Ms Fayza Aboulnaga said that by strengthening its cooperation with Egypt, Vietnam will be also to penetrate EU and African markets over which Egyptian enterprises are holding sway.