Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong and John Kitzhaber,Governor of the US’ Oregon state, have discussed measures to furtherenhance cooperation between the two sides.

Both host and gueston June 18 highly valued the flourishing bilateral cooperation in a widerange of fields, including education-training, trade-investment andsearch and rescue work. They also highlighted the great progress inVietnam-US ties, noticeably negotiations for the Trans-PacificPartnership (TPP) agreement.

They agreed to back an initiativeon setting up a mechanism for collaboration between Vietnam and Oregonstate based on their existing relations and developing new fields forcooperation.

During his tour of the US state, the Vietnamesediplomat visited the Portland State University and attended a seminar atthe Hatfield School of the Government on ways to promote cooperationbetween the two sides in the time ahead.

He also met withseveral important figures of the two corporations, Nike and Intel, whosebranches are operating effectively in Vietnam.

At themeeting, business representatives spoke highly of timely measures takenby the Vietnamese Government to help riot-affected firms promptly resumetheir normal operations.

In addition, Cuong had a workingsession with the Oregon Army National Guard during which the twosides reviewed outcomes of the cooperation and the sharing of experiencein search and rescue work.

With its population of nearly 4 million, Oregon posted a gross domestic product of 220 billion USD last year.-VNA