Hanoi and Toulouse city of France will enhance cooperation in awide range of areas from cultural exchange to conservation of oldquarter heritages, sustainable urban development, training andeconomics.

An agreement to this effect was recently signedbetween Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Thi BichNgoc and Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc.

Under theagreement, in the 2014-2020 period, the two sides will expandcooperation to other fields, including arts, culture and archaeology.

In the economic field, the two cities will createfavourable conditions for their businesses to promote investmentactivities in aviation, digital technology, transport, agriculture, foodand health.

Toulouse will be responsible forstudying a possibility of developing ties between Vietnamese and Frenchcities in the fields of economics, technology and socio-culture.Meanwhile, Hanoi will bridge relations between Toulouse and othercities in Asia .

The two cities will study apossibility of joining events in their networks, Europe’s cooperationprogrammes or decentralised cooperation projects in the above-mentionedperiod.

Hanoi and Toulouse have so farcooperated in implementing a number of projects, bringing great benefitsto the community. Among those is an urban axis linking Ton Duc Thangand Nguyen Trai streets designed by Toulouse ’s urban planningagency.

Over the past 18 years, the two cities haveeffectively coordinated in preserving and promoting the values of theirold quarter heritages.-VNA