The Egyptian Mail posts an article about the visit on its front page (Photo: VNA) Cairo (VNA) – Vietnamese President Tran DaiQuang’s State visit to Egypt has been in the spotlight of the Egyptian mediaover the past few days.
The Ahram online newspaper reported thatEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi expressed his keenness to develop friendshiprelations between Egypt and Vietnam following a meeting with his Vietnamesecounterpart Tran Dai Quang in Cairo.
Speaking at a press conference, El-Sisi saidQuang's visit was of special importance as it was the first visit by aVietnamese head of state to Egypt since the establishment of diplomatic tiesbetween the two countries 55 years ago.
President El-Sisi visited Vietnam in September2017, which was also the first visit by an Egyptian president to the SoutheastAsian nation since the diplomatic ties were set up in 1963.
Ahram quoted El-Sisi as saying that: "Thesehistoric visits, as well as meetings between both countries' officials onseveral occasions, resemble the regard by both countries in boosting tiesbetween another."
El-Sisi said that the pair had held “fruitful”talks, discussing the means of boosting bilateral relations at all levels. Theround of talks also involved talks on supporting political, economic, security,and military relations between both countries, and means of combatingterrorism.
President Tran Dai Quang's visit also makes the headlines on the Egyptian Gazette (Photo: VNA) The leaders discussed opening the Vietnamesemarket for Egyptian exports, among discussions on revitalising touristic andcultural exchanges between the two countries.
Several deals related to attracting trade,supporting agriculture, and cooperating in the field of fuel were also signedduring the visit, according to the newspaper.
Ahram also highlighted Egypt-Vietnam trade andinvestment relations in recent years. Vietnam imports chemicals, honey,petroleum products, dairy products and textiles from Egypt at a value of 8.7million USD annually. Egypt imports 221.3 million USD worth of Vietnamese goodsannually, including fish, seafood, textiles, clothing, mobile phones,equipment, spare parts, and vehicles.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian Mail weekly posted anarticle about the State visit by the Vietnamese leader on its front page. Itsaid the summit talks between the two presidents reflected the political willto promote the countries’ multifaceted relations. The article noted that Egyptand Vietnam are working to enhance economic and investment cooperation.
In statements to the Middle East News Agency(MENA), the Egyptian President’s Spokesman Ambassador Bassam Radi said that thetalks between El-Sisi and Quang reflected the huge positive development inbilateral relations in an unprecedented way in addition to the provision of ajoint political will to boost these relations at all levels, especially inagriculture and industry.-VNA
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