Ha noted that Belarus has helped Vietnam train many officialsand experts serving the country’s national construction and development,especially in the fields of science and technology.
Underlining that the two sides have yet to optimise theircooperation potential, the Deputy PM said that the upcoming visit by the BelarusianPM is expected to help beef up bilateral ties in a more comprehensive anddeeper manner, especially in economy, culture, environment, climate change,security and defence. Particularly, education will still be one of the priorities in bilateral cooperation.
A new education cooperation agreement will be signed between Vietnam andBelarus, which is hoped to bring practical benefits to people of both sides andmotivate the comprehensive cooperation between the two countries in the time tocome, he said.
Ha expressed his hope that Vietnam’s Ministry of Educationand Training and Belarus’ Ministry of Education will promptly finalise cooperationprogrammes and frameworks between the two countries with diverse forms such asdelegation exchanges and experience sharing in general, tertiary and post-graduateeducation, along with the formation of joint science research groups and theexchange of students.
For his part, Ivanets affirmed that there is plenty of roomfor the two countries to further promote their education-training cooperation.
To date, 40 cooperation agreements have been signed amonguniversities of Vietnam and Belarus, he said, expressing his belief that a neweducation cooperation deal to be signed between the two Governments willcontribute to further promote bilateral collaboration in the field./.