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On October 15, Ambassador of Armenia to Viet Nam Suren Baghdasaryan paid a working visit to Hai Phong, where he met with Mr. Le Ngoc Chau, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee and Chairman of the City People’s Committee, as well as Mr. Tran Viet Tuan, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Hai Phong City People’s Committee.
The meetings were also attended by Mr. Nguyen Van Thuan, President of the Viet Nam–Armenia Friendship Association and former Secretary of the Hai Phong City Party Committee, along with several members of the Association, the Armenian Embassy said in a press release.
During his meeting with Mr. Le Ngoc Chau, while discussing new opportunities for regional cooperation within the framework of the “Crossroads of Peace” initiative and emphasizing Hai Phong’s role as a key logistics hub for Viet Nam, Ambassador Baghdasaryan underlined Armenia’s importance as a transit country providing access to European, Middle Eastern, and Eurasian markets.
Ambassador Baghdasaryan drew his interlocutor’s attention to the potential for exporting various Armenian products, particularly alcoholic beverages, agricultural goods, and dried fruits. He also expressed the Armenian side’s readiness to develop cooperation with Hai Phong in the fields of trade, investment, logistics, high technology, tourism, science, education, and other areas.
Mr. Le Ngoc Chau presented to the Armenian Ambassador Hai Phong’s industrial, infrastructural, logistical, investment, cultural, and tourism potential, noting that cooperation between the two countries in various sectors remains below the existing potential. He expressed hope that through joint efforts with the Embassy in targeted areas, it would be possible to raise the level of cooperation.
During the meeting between Ambassador Baghdasaryan and Mr. Tran Viet Tuan, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Hai Phong City People’s Committee, the parties discussed ways to ensure the implementation mechanisms for bilateral cooperation.
Following the aforementioned meetings, the Armenian Ambassador toured Hai Phong’s “VinFast” electric vehicle manufacturing plant, where he familiarized himself with the factory’s production capacities and discussed with the Vietnamese side possible avenues for cooperation in the field of automobile manufacturing.