Doha: HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held an official talks session with HE Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinh, who is visiting Qatar. Talks during the session addressed cooperation relations between the two countries and ways to support and develop them, and discussed a number of regional and international issues of common concern.
According to Qatar News Agency, HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and HE the Vietnamese Prime Minister witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of sports between the governments of the two countries. Additionally, a memorandum of understanding in the field of training and diplomatic education was signed between the Diplomatic Institute at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vietnam. A protocol was also agreed upon between the governments of the two countri
es, amending an agreement on air transport signed in 2009, along with a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the legal field between the ministries of justice in the two countries.
An official reception ceremony was accorded to HE the Vietnamese Prime Minister upon his arrival at the Amiri Diwan.
