Nguyen Phu Trong (R), General secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) and Vietnam's President, meets with French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov. 2, 2018. (Xinhua/VNA)
HANOI, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- During their talks here on Friday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his visiting French counterpart Edouard Philippe affirmed their determination to bolster cooperative ties.
The two sides agreed to increase delegation exchanges at all levels, while forging stronger partnership in politics, economy, defense, science-technology, culture, and education-training, Vietnam News Agency reported.
Both sides concurred to promote collaboration in building e-government and modernizing state administrative governance, which is a new and promising cooperation area.
On Friday, Phuc and Philippe witnessed the signing of agreements of cooperation between Vietnam and France in various areas, including training, e-government development, health care, climate change response, environmental protection, urban management, aviation, and energy.
