Newly-accredited Vietnamese
Ambassador to Mexico Nguyen Hoai Duong made the remark while presenting a copy
of his credentials to Director General of Protocol Carlos Lara Armienta and
Director General for Asia-Pacific at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Alfonso de Maria y Campos in Mexico City on November 21.
He affirmed that Vietnam attaches great importance to the role of
Mexico
in the region and the world.
Vietnamese
Ambassador to Mexico Nguyen Hoai Duong presenting a copy
of his credentials to Director General of Protocol Carlos Lara Armienta. Photo: Vietnam+
The key tasks during his working
tenure in Mexico
are promoting high-level delegation exchanges and implementing bilateral
cooperation mechanisms in political consultation between the two countries’
Ministries of Foreign Affairs, the joint committee on economic-trade-investment
cooperation, and the joint committee on culture-education cooperation, Duong said.
Added to this is strengthening
coordination at multilateral mechanisms of the United Nations, the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation Forum, the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific
Partnership (CPTPP), and the Forum of East Asia-Latin America Cooperation
(FEALAC), for common benefits and peace, stability and development, he said.
The Ambassador hoped to receive
support from Mexico’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs to fulfil his missions.
Alfonso expressed his admiration for
Vietnam’s
accomplishments in building and developing the country as well as his
sentiments for Vietnamese people.
He lauded the development in the two
countries’ relations in recent years, especially positive outcomes of the
bilateral meeting between President Tran Dai Quang and President Enrique Pena
Nieto on the sidelines of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting 2017 in Da Nang,
Vietnam.
The two sides also recently held the
first meeting of a joint committee on economic, trade and investment
cooperation in Hanoi,
he noted.
For his part, Carlos congratulated Vietnam
on successfully hosting APEC Year 2017 and thanked the Vietnamese Government
and people for their warm welcome at the APEC summit.
Two-way trade increased nearly ten
fold to exceed 5 billion USD in 2016 from 531 million USD in 2007. Vietnam is the fifth biggest trade partner of Mexico in Asia-Pacific, while Mexico is Vietnam’s
largest trader in Latin America
Source: VNA