Việt Nam would like to see increased investment from Hungary into the country in several fields the European nation is strong in, Viet Nam’s top legislator told her counterpart during talks in Budapest yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc received newly-accredited Myanmar Ambassador to Việt Nam Kyaw Soe Win yesterday, voicing hope that the diplomat would contribute to ties between the countries.

Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tòng Thị Phóng has proposed that the World Health Organisation (WHO) work closely with the Vietnamese Government in efforts to curb diseases and increase the quality of public health care.

The implementation of the free trade agreement between Việt Nam and the Eurasian Economic Union will open opportunities to raise bilateral trade to US$10 billion by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng told Russian Ambassador to Việt Nam, Konstantin Vnukov, yesterday.

Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Margaret Chan suggested that Việt Nam should pay more attention to working together with WHO in preventive medicine to prevent diseases and accidents at her meeting with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Hà Nội yesterday.

Việt Nam treasures the help that the people of Hungary have extended to the people of Việt Nam in the struggle for national liberation in the past, and in national construction nowadays, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân said in the Hungarian capital yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has promulgated a government overall programme on practicing thrift and preventing wastefulness in 2017.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on Saturday that business should be the main force in building a new-style agriculture and creating farm produce that meets consumer demand. 

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said on Saturday that Việt Nam has consistently insisted that disputes in the East Sea be settled by peaceful measures in line with international law.