An art performance at the get-together (Photo : VNA)The event aimed to popularise the significance and importance of maintaining and consolidating the traditional friendship and strategic partnership between Vietnam and India to local people, especially theyoung generation.
Indian Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Madan Mohan Sethisaid that the bilateral multi-faceted cooperation has been developing well.Two-way trade increased from 200 million USD in 2000 to 12.04 billion USD in2019, but decreased to over 10 billion USD in 2020-2021 due to impacts of theCOVID-19 pandemic.
The two nations are striving to raise the figure to 14billion USD, he added.
Huynh Van Nghiep, President of the Vietnam-India FriendshipAssociation in Can Tho, said that the association has coordinated closely withthe Indian Consulate General in organising a wide range of economic andcultural cooperation activities and people-to-people exchanges.
During the COVID-19 outbreak in India, agencies in theMekong Delta city called on organisations and individuals to help the Indianpeople combat the pandemic, while Can Tho received much assistance fromIndia in the fields of agriculture and information technology, he highlighted, addingthat these activities have contributed to developing the bilateral friendship.
On the same day, the Indian Consul General was received byVice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thuc Hien who affirmedthat the municipal authorities and people always consider the traditional friendshipand solidarity with the Indian people an important factor in internationalrelations for the national safeguarding and development cause of the two countries./.
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