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>Vietnam - Two Koreas Relationship Helps Regional Development, Says FM Vietnam
>and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) share aspirations of
>promoting bilateral relations in the interest of each country's people, and
>for peace, stability and development in the Asian-Pacific region and the world
>as a whole, Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien said. The foreign minister was
>speaking in an exclusive interview with Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
>correspondent in Seoul before concluding his visits to the DPRK and the
>Republic of Korea (RoK). On relations with the DPRK, Mr Nien said that the
>fraternal friendship between the Parties and people of the two countries,
>fostered by President Ho Chi Minh and President Kim Il Sung, had been
>constantly strengthened and developed over recent years. He added that the two
>countries had united, supported and assisted each other in their respective
>struggles for national independence, freedom and unification. Besides deep
>sympathies between those who share the same plight, Vietnam and the DPRK
>shared fundamental similarities in terms of social regime, ideals and goals,
>the FM stressed. He said that the two nations had so far this year organised
>many activities to mark the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic ties. The
>Vietnam visit by DPRK Foreign Minister Pec Nam Sun in March this year
>demonstrated the unceasing development of friendship and co-operation between
>the two Parties and peoples, Mr Nien noted. He said that his August 5-8 visit
>to the DPRK aimed to strengthen such traditional relationships. The visit,
>which took place after the DPRK-RoK Summit, DPRK's participation in the
>Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF), and
>Vietnam's becoming President of ASEAN, was of great significance, he added. On
>detailed measures that Vietnam and the DPRK have reached to boost bilateral
>relationships, Mr Nien said: "Both sides have attached importance to the
>traditional friendship and co-operation between the Parties and people of the
>two countries, and agreed that the two countries will together strengthen
>solidarity and bilateral relations, and bring them to a new level in the 21st
>century. The two sides have agreed to increase exchanges of high-level
>delegations, to re-convene the Inter-governmental Committee for Economic,
>Scientific and Technological Co-operation, to boost commercial and economic
>co-operation, to further bilateral co-operation in culture, education and
>sports, to co-ordinate at international and regional multilateral forums, and
>to strengthen relations between the two foreign ministries." Regarding
>relations with the RoK, FM Nien said that Vietnam and the Republic of Korea
>(RoK) should exert greater efforts to boost investment and trade ties, to take
>the bilateral relationship to a new level of development in the future. In
>terms of bilateral trade, the RoK was enjoying a trade surplus, Mr Nien said,
>adding that the two sides would devise effective measures to bridge the
>current gap. The RoK government had pledged that it would increase imports
>from Vietnam. He highlighted the success of a group of RoK business people in
>Vietnam. It was possible that RoK investment in Vietnam would increase in the
>near future as a result of the RoK's economic rebound and considerable
>improvements in the investment environment in Vietnam. In the immediate
>future, those RoK-invested projects in Vietnam which had not yet been
>completed due to the Asian financial-monetary crisis should be continued, Mr
>Nien said. He noted that assistance from the RoK's Economic Development and
>Cooperation Fund (EDCF), including non-refundable aid, to Vietnam was expected
>to increase in the years to come. Joint efforts would be made to boost labour
>co-operation. The two sides would tap their respective potentials to expand
>bilateral co-operation in the domains of culture, sports and tourism. Worthy
>of note was that RoK leaders touched upon an unhappy chapter in bilateral
>relations between the peoples of Vietnam and the RoK in the past and expressed
>their wishes to turn the bilateral relationship into a comprehensive one, so
>as to promote mutual understanding between the two peoples. Asked about
>Vietnam's efforts to promote negotiations on the Korean peninsula, Nien
>affirmed that Vietnam had always hoped that peace and stability would be
>established on the Korean peninsula and fully supported the aspirations for
>peace and unity of the people living on the peninsula. Vietnam welcomed the
>outcome of the inter-Korean summit last June and recent developments regarding
>the situation on the Korean peninsula. As president of ASEAN and the ARF,
>Vietnam would do its utmost to contribute to the strengthening and promotion
>of peace, stability and co-operation on the Korean peninsula, Mr Nien said in
>conclusion. (VNA)
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>
> Lao Newspaper Praises August Revolution
>
> Pasason daily newspaper, the organ of the Lao People�s
>Revolutionary Party, praised the historical meaning of the Vietnam August
>Revolution in an article on its issue on August 21.
>
> The article reviewed the significant moments during the general
>insurrection to seize power nationwide from mid-August 1945, including the
>uprising in Hanoi on August 19. The article stressed that thanks to the great
>victory of the August Revolution, President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration
>of Independence, giving birth to the People�s Democratic Republic of Vietnam,
>a new Vietnam in the 4,000-year history of the country�s building and defence
>on September 2, 1945 at the Ba Dinh Square.
>
> The article affirms that the skilful and talented combination
>between patriotism and the revolutionary truth of the era, the Communist Party
>of Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh has creatively applied the Marxism
>-Leninism to Vietnam�s reality and led the Vietnamese people to re-gain
>national independence, bringing Vietnam to a new era, the era of socialism.
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