VIETNAM: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva makes the first visit to Vietnam by a Brazilian President since relations were established in 1989

Record ID: 739518

  • Title: VIETNAM: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva makes the first visit to Vietnam by a Brazilian President since relations were established in 1989
  • Date: 11th July 2008
  • Summary: EXTERIOR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE LULA AND TRIET ENTERING THE ROOM/ TRIET SHAKING HANDS WITH LULA BRAZIL AND VIETNAM'S FLAGS LULA AND BRAZILIAN DELEGATION VIETNAMESE DELEGATION/ TRIET AND VIETNAMESE DELEGATION LULA SPEAKING GENERAL VIEW OF MEETING ROOM GENERAL VIEW SIGNING ROOM GENERAL VIEW OF BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CELSO NUNES AMORIM AND VIETNAMESE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER PHAM GIA KHIEM SIGNING DOCUMENTS BRAZILIAN AND VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS KHIEM AND AMORIM EXCHANGING THE DOCUMENTS TRIET AND LULA AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE ROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT, LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA SAYING: "Both sides are pursuing the diversity system so that we could respond to all challenges that we are now facing. Working closely together, we could highly agree on the most important issues (key issues) in the world." TRIET AND LULA AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE ROOM
  • Embargoed: 26th July 2008 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA36OUGT2OSQUBCQT8A1DX2G0Y7
  • Story Text: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Hanoi on Thursday (July 10) and was welcomed by Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet at the Presidential Palace.
    This is the first visit by a Brazilian president since the countries established relations in 1989 and Lula will pay another one-day visit after attending the Group of Eight summit in Japan.
    During their talks, both sides discussed bilateral and multilateral issues, including initiatives on increasing cooperation between the two countries, in agriculture, infrastructure, social integration, vocational training, biological energy, trade and investment and sport.
    Lula and his Vietnamese president Nguyen Minh Triet reaffirmed that they will support each other in the bid for greater representation of developing countries in the global political and trade arenas.
    Triet also reaffirmed Vietnam's support for Brazil's bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council.
    On this occasion, Ministers of Vietnam and Brazil have signed the cooperation documents on the diplomatic, cultural, sports, scientific and technological sectors and combating poverty and hunger.
    Lula will also attend the Vietnam - Brazil Business Forum which focuses on building new partnership relation.
    The Brazilian President was accompanied by some 30-50 Brazilian businesses working in the infrastructure building, energy, banking, aviation and agricultural production. But a two-way trade reached just 323 million dollars last year.
    Vietnam exported coal, rice, textiles and footwear, wood furniture and electronics, while importing flour, soya-bean oil, animal feed materials, steel, paper and pulp, wood and leather from Brazil.
    During a meeting with media, Lula said said ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, of which Vietnam is a member, and South America's Mercosur trading bloc will meet in November in his country for the first time.

    "Both sides are pursuing the diversity system so that we could respond to all challenges that we are now facing. Working closely together, we could highly agree on the most important issues (key issues) in the world," he said.
    Lula will also meet with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, who made a first visit to Brazil as Communist Party chief in May 2007.
    The next leg of Lula's trip will include East Timor and Indonesia.
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