Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh witnessed the signing ceremony and the exchange of 26 cooperation agreements.
On the afternoon of October 31 (local time), in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, during his visit to the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) and working visit to the UK, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and witnessed the signing and exchange of 26 cooperation agreements in the fields of trade, agriculture, energy, health, education, training, environmental protection, sports... signed by Vietnamese ministries, sectors and enterprises with British partners.
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA |
Attending the signing ceremony and exchanging cooperation agreements were leaders of ministries and branches of Vietnam and the UK.
Among the 26 agreements signed and awarded, there were many meaningful agreements and cooperations signed and received by ministries and branches such as: Letter of Intent to participate in the Alliance initiative to reduce emissions through enhanced forestry finance, Cooperation Agreement to develop an Action Plan to enhance linkages and higher education facilities between the two countries, Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening cooperation in education through exchange of experiences and strategic areas, Cooperation Agreement to develop human resource training programs for the Ministry of Planning and Investment and support start-up businesses for Vietnam; Cooperation Agreement on technology transfer on land management and training of related human resources...
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the launching ceremony of the Vietnam-UK direct flight and the signing ceremony to announce the general agent of Bamboo Airways. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA |
Notably, many meaningful and valuable cooperation agreements between leading enterprises of Vietnam and the UK were signed at the ceremony, such as: Vietjet Air and Rolls-Royce Group signed an agreement to provide engines and engine services for the wide-body aircraft fleet with a total value of 400 million USD; SOVICO Group and Oxford University signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation and investment funding for research and education development with a total value of 155 million pounds; Vietjet Air and two leading insurance consulting companies in the world, Gallagher Limited and Willis Towers Watson Limited of the UK, awarded a certificate of reinsurance for the entire airline's fleet globally; Affinity Investment Fund and HDBank signed a sponsorship agreement of 300 million USD for a sustainable development program to combat climate change; EMG Education Group signed a memorandum of understanding on comprehensive educational cooperation with Pearson Education Group; Vingroup Corporation and representatives of Raphael Labs Company (UK) signed an Agreement on cooperation in developing investment, testing and transferring technology to produce drugs to prevent Covid-19 and respiratory diseases...
The agreements signed with a total value of billions of USD in many fields show that the cooperative relationship between Vietnam and the UK has been and is growing stronger.
