The two sides need to implement their commitments and effectively carry out cooperation projects, thus contributing to promoting friendship between the two countries and peoples, PM Dung said while receiving Mozambican Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca in Hanoi on March 26.

The Prime Minister expressed his support for agreements signed between the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Agriculture Ministry of Mozambique.
He praised the achievements recorded by the Party, government and people of Mozambique in economic development.

Minister Soares Nhaca conveyed an invitation to visit Mozambique from the President and Prime Minister to PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

Mozambique has been making great progress in national construction and development, the minister said, adding the country has, in recent years, registered an average economic growth rate of 7 percent annually, maintained political stability and improved people’s lives.

Minister Soares Nhaca emphasized the Mozambican desire and determination to boost friendship and multifaceted cooperation with Vietnam on the basis of mutual benefit and for peace and development.

Earlier the same day, Minister Soares Nhaca and his Vietnamese counterpart, Cao Duc Phat, signed an MoU of cooperation, under which Vietnam will send a mission of experts to study the potential for rubber, cashew and rice growing as well as aquaculture in the four Mozambican provinces of Zambezia, Nampula, Tete and Gaza in April and May.

VNA