Both the Hungarian and the Vietnamese governments would like to improve trade turnover between the two countries, which is currently 120 million dollars, Head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI following the meeting between President of Vietnam Truong Tan Sang and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán on Monday in Budapest.

Mr. Havasi said that at the meeting held in the Hungarian Parliament, the Prime Minister and the Vietnamese President had determined the priority goal of establishing a Joint Economic Committee to develop opportunities for expanding trade between the two countries. The main opportunities for expansion are within the fields of water management, healthcare and agriculture, it was decided at the meeting.

Both Viktor Orbán and Truong Tan Sang called cooperation between the two countries on nuclear training outstanding, adding that they considered it important for more Vietnamese students to study in Hungary within the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Program, which forms part of the Government's policy of opening towards the East – Bertalan Havasi told the press.

(Prime Minister’s Office)