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SME Times News Bureau | 18 Sep, 2014
India has always stood by
Vietnam and will continue to do so, President Pranab Mukherjee said
Wednesday, and expressed confidence their strategic partnership will
steadily augment and they will provide stability and growth to the
region and the world.
The president, reading out a statement on
his state visit to Vietnam, said he was "greatly moved" by his
experiences during his stay.
"Yesterday (Tuesday), at the War
Remnants Museum, I saw a poster of 1966 proclaiming the support of the
Indian people for the Vietnamese people in their struggle for freedom.
"India
has always stood by and supported the people of Vietnam. We were with
them then, we are with them now and we will continue to stand strongly
with Vietnam in the future. Vietnam has in India a dependable and
trustworthy partner.
"The people of India, irrespective of
differences in political conviction or affiliation remain strong
votaries of friendship with Vietnam," he said, expressing his confidence
that the relations will grow from "strength to strength" and their
strategic partnership will be "deepened and expanded".
Mukherjee
said he was certain that as "two of the fastest growing economies of
Asia", they will provide "stability and growth" to the region and the
world.
The president told accompanying journalists in a media
interaction during the return flight that his visits to the museum as
well as the Cu Chi tunnel complex outside Ho Chi Minh City had convinced
him of the "determination and strength of character" of the Vietnamese
people, and this also explained their economic progress.
"There
has been steady GDP growth and though they started (liberalisation) late
in 1991, they have brought down the poverty rate from 50 percent to 10
percent now," he said.
"This shows the strength of their economy," he said.
The president also noted that the poster he saw in the museum had been printed in then Calcutta by the Indian Communist party.
In
his statement, he said he and his delegation were "overwhelmed by the
affection, hospitality and warmth" of the reception extended to them,
the "across the board a deep-seated desire for closer interaction" and
were returning "impressed by the commitment of the Vietnamese government
to take the relation to new heights".
He said political
relations have always been "strong and cloudless" but it was now time to
focus with "renewed energy and fresh determination on strengthening
economic engagement, connectivity, and people to people exchanges,
especially among the youth.
During the visit that took Mukherjee
to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, India and Vietnam called for a peaceful,
unfettered South China Sea, and inked seven agreements including for
direct Delhi-Hanoi flights and an extended line of credit for purchase
of military equipment.
Both countries also set a target of $15 billion bilateral trade by 2020.
Vietnamese
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is set to visit India in October at the
head of a large business delegation to explore further opportunities for
economic cooperation.
A joint communique following the talks
said Mukherjee and his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang agreed to
strengthen and deepen bilateral cooperation on the basis of the
strategic partnership, with focus on political, defence and security
cooperation, economic cooperation, science and technology, culture and
people-to-people links, technical cooperation and multilateral and
regional cooperation.
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