A workshop analysing cultural, educational and social affiliation between Vietnam and India was held in Hanoi on June 30.
Organised by the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, theworkshop gave insight into the current situation as well as its impactson international affairs and vice versa.
Majorbarriers to cooperation, including differences in geopolitics andgeo-economics approaches, religion, culture, customs and legalframeworks, came under close scrutiny before participants proposedinitiatives and measures to foster the two sides’ collaboration.
According to Professor Ta Ngoc Tan, Director of the Ho Chi MinhNational Academy of Politics, Vietnam and India established bilateralstrategic partnership in 2007 and have since achieved positive resultsin trade, politics, culture, education, science and technology, energyindustry, security and defence.
To support theirtraditional ties and strategic partnership, leaders of the two countrieshave signed a number of cooperation pacts in remote sensing andenhancing connections in road and air transportation. They also agreedto mount a biennial Vietnam-India friendship festival.
Vietnam has long played an important part in the Indian Look East policy.
Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Preeti Saran emphasised the necessity ofeducating the younger generation of the two countries on the potentialof their relations.
India considers joint cultural and educational activities a foundation of its ties with Vietnam, she said.
On the occasion, the academy’s India research centre launched a bookon contemporary India, the first of 100 books gifted by IndianPresident Pranab Mukherjee during his 2014 Vietnam visit to bepublished in Vietnamese.-VNA
Organised by the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, theworkshop gave insight into the current situation as well as its impactson international affairs and vice versa.
Majorbarriers to cooperation, including differences in geopolitics andgeo-economics approaches, religion, culture, customs and legalframeworks, came under close scrutiny before participants proposedinitiatives and measures to foster the two sides’ collaboration.
According to Professor Ta Ngoc Tan, Director of the Ho Chi MinhNational Academy of Politics, Vietnam and India established bilateralstrategic partnership in 2007 and have since achieved positive resultsin trade, politics, culture, education, science and technology, energyindustry, security and defence.
To support theirtraditional ties and strategic partnership, leaders of the two countrieshave signed a number of cooperation pacts in remote sensing andenhancing connections in road and air transportation. They also agreedto mount a biennial Vietnam-India friendship festival.
Vietnam has long played an important part in the Indian Look East policy.
Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Preeti Saran emphasised the necessity ofeducating the younger generation of the two countries on the potentialof their relations.
India considers joint cultural and educational activities a foundation of its ties with Vietnam, she said.
On the occasion, the academy’s India research centre launched a bookon contemporary India, the first of 100 books gifted by IndianPresident Pranab Mukherjee during his 2014 Vietnam visit to bepublished in Vietnamese.-VNA
