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>Scientific and technological awards presented
>
>A ceremony to present Ho Chi Minh Awards and State Awards on Science and
>Technology was held on November 26 at the Hanoi Opera House.
>
>The State president, on September 1, 2000 signed a decision to present the Ho
>Chi Minh Awards on Science and Technology to 21 works and the State Awards on
>Science and Technology to 71 others.
>
>Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem presented the State president’s
>certificates to the winners. The deputy prime minister spoke highly of the
>great achievements and the precious contributions of the country’s scientific
>and technological circle in general and of the winners in particular. He also
>urged them to make greater contributions, creating more scientific products of
>high value to serve the cause of national industrialisation and modernisation.
>
>Two scientists, Professor, Dr Nguyen Van Luat, representing for the scientists
>of the technological, medicine and pharmaceutical block, and Professor Ha Van
>Tan, on behalf of the scientists of the social and humanity block, thanked the
>Party and the State for the attention to the scientists and promised to make
>more contributions to national construction.
>
>Dignitaries to the meeting included Advisors to the Party Central Committee Do
>Muoi and Le Duc Anh; Vice State President Nguyen Thi Binh; Deputy Prime
>Minister Pham Gia Khiem; National Assembly Deputy Chairman Vu Dinh Cu; General
>Vo Nguyen Giap and many other leaders of the Party and State.
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>PM meets foreign leaders
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>Prime Minister Phan Van Khai and leaders of other ASEAN countries met with
>Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and President
>of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Kim Dae- Jung in Singapore on November 25.
>PM Khai is head of the Vietnamese delegation to the fourth ASEAN informal
>summit in Singapore.
>
>During these meetings, PM Khai expressed his delight at further development of
>the relations between eastern Asian countries, saying that the development of
>such relations has important significance both at present and in the future.
>He affirmed that Vietnam would do its best to contribute to developing the
>neighbourly friendship and co-operation between the members of the Association
>of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China. He said he believed that with
>both sides' determination, their relations would be certainly strengthened for
>peace, stability, co-operation and development in the region and the world.
>
>He held that Vietnam has effectively fulfilled its role as co-ordinator of the
>ASEAN-Japan relationship. He said he hoped that Japan would actively help
>carry out the Hanoi Plan of Action which is aimed at narrowing the development
>gap, developing human resources, information technology and poverty reduction,
>particularly the development of the Mekong River basin and the East-West
>Corridor.
>
>The Vietnamese PM expressed his support for the settlement of issues on the
>Korean peninsula by peaceful means through dialogue and for the Korean
>people's aspiration of peaceful national unification. He welcomed the RoK's
>efforts in strengthening and promoting its co-operation with the ASEAN and
>asked the RoK to actively support and participate in the implementation of the
>Hanoi Plan of Action, especially the ASEAN's current priority programmes.
>
>PM Khai also met on separate occasions with Singaporean Prime Minister Goh
>Chok Tong, RoK President Kim Dae-Jung, Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai,
>Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji.
>
>During these meetings, they informed each other of the situation in their
>respective countries, and discussed measures to further promote bilateral
>political, economic, trade and investment ties as well as their co-operation
>at regional and world multilateral forums, especially co-operation within the
>framework of ASEAN and between ASEAN and the three north-east Asian countries.
>
>
>PM Khai expressed his pleasure at the new development of friendship and
>co-operation between Vietnam and those countries and developments in the
>relations between the ASEAN countries and the north-east Asian countries. He
>affirmed that Vietnam in its capacity as President of the ASEAN Standing
>Committee and the ASEAN Regional Forum will spare no effort to boost effective
>co-operation among ASEAN countries and between ASEAN and China, Japan and RoK.
>
>
>The leaders of Thailand, China, Japan and RoK conveyed their condolences to
>Vietnamese leaders on the losses in lives and property caused by recent floods
>in Mekong delta provinces.
>
>They praised the achievements recorded by the Vietnamese people in national
>renovation, industrialisation and modernisation and welcomed Vietnam's
>contributions to strengthening co-operation among ASEAN countries and between
>ASEAN and the north-east Asian countries in its capacity as ASEAN President.
>They pledged to accelerate co-operation with ASEAN countries, assist ASEAN
>countries in pushing up the implementation of the Hanoi Plan of Action, and
>support the new ASEAN member countries to narrow the development gap and carry
>out hunger and poverty eradication programme, as well as the implementation of
>ASEAN-framework projects on the development of the Mekong sub-region and
>East-West Corridor.
>
>At a press briefing on the same day, Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong, chairman of
>the session, spoke of the ASEAN's priority in narrowing the development gap by
>giving assistance to the four new member countries: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
>and Myanmar. (VNA)
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>Ho Chi Minh Museum granted Independence Order
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>The Ho Chi Minh Museum was presented an Independence Order, third class, on
>its 30th founding anniversary in Hanoi on November 25.
>
>Since its opening in 1990, the museum has received about 11 million visitors.
>Of these, 620,000 visitors were foreigners and heads of states. Over the past
>30 years, the museum also organised many scientific seminars on the study
>about Uncle Ho, the Vietnam's Communist Party and the preservation, museum and
>restoration work of memorial sites of late President Ho Chi Minh across the
>country. With 110,000 documents and artefacts and 20,000 books on President Ho
>Chi Minh, the museum is a centre of researching and providing materials for
>studying works about Uncle Ho. The museum also collaborated with localities to
>build a system of Uncle Ho's museums and memorial sites; expanded co-operation
>in scientific research with relevant agencies at home and abroad and helped
>Laos build Kaysone Phomvihan Museum. Staff of the museum have always fulfilled
>their tasks.
>
>Attending the ceremony were General Vo Nguyen Giap; the Party Central
>Committee member and culture and information minister, Nguyen Khoa Diem,
>representatives from sectors and branches and former leaders of the Ho Chi
>Minh Museum at different periods.
>
>President Tran Duc Luong sent a basket of flowers to congratulate the museum.
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>ASEAN informal summit reaches consensus on development: FM Nien
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>Leaders of member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
>(ASEAN) at the fourth ASEAN informal summit have agreed to build south-east
>Asia into a dynamic economic region, said Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien.
>FM Nien granted an interview to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent about the
>results of the summit held in Singapore on November 24 and 25 right after his
>return to Hanoi on November 26.
>
>The FM said that through the summit and the meetings of ASEAN+3 (China, Japan
>and the Republic of Korea) and ASEAN+1, the leaders of ASEAN member countries
>were of the same view that challenges in development were facing the ASEAN
>group and the region. They reached consensus on making great efforts to help
>new member countries including Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, overcome
>backwardness, give priority to information technology and human resources
>development, and continue carrying out agreed projects, particularly the Hanoi
>Plan of Action, with a view to quickly build south-east Asia into a dynamic
>economic region, keeping up with the general development trend.
>
>He noted that the summit agreed upon the followings:
>
>First, ASEAN leaders agreed that at the seventh ASEAN Summit in Brunei in
>2001, a mid-term review will be held to assess implementation of the Hanoi
>Plan of Action and to work out follow-up measures to realise the ASEAN
>development strategy.
>
>They stressed the determinations to carry out such pledged programmes and
>projects for common development as the establishment of the ASEAN Free Trade
>Area (AFTA) and the building of an ASEAN Investment Area (AIA). They also
>agreed upon a number of important co-operation programmes with the latest
>development being the signing of the e-ASEAN framework agreement and
>accelerating the building of the trans-Asia system of railway, road and
>riverway transport. Those programmes aim to develop the Mekong basin in order
>to narrow the development gap between countries in the region and between
>ASEAN and the world.
>
>Second, ASEAN leaders once again highlighted their countries' determinations
>in the spirit of "Solidarity, co-operation for an ASEAN of Peace, Stability
>and Equal Development". Now more than ever before, ASEAN member countries
>should strengthen solidarity, mutual assistance and joint efforts to raise
>efficiency of economic co-operation and particularly to help new members
>develop and integrate into regional and global economies.
>
>The ASEAN leaders all pointed to the need to maintain ASEAN fundamental
>principles, consensus and non-interference in each other's internal affairs.
>On this basis, ASEAN has created and will create a common and stronger voice
>at international and regional fora, thus raising the role of ASEAN in settling
>regional and international issues.
>
>Third, on relations between ASEAN and other countries, success of the ASEAN+3
>and ASEAN+1 meetings have affirmed the common wish of north-east Asian
>dialogue partners to boost co-operation with and assistance to less-developed
>ASEAN countries and to join in overcoming economic and financial difficulties
>to prevent any crisis from re-occurrence. Worthy of note is that the summit
>had discussed the ideal of building a powerful East Asia economy having one
>third of the world's population, a GDP of US $7,000 billion and great
>potential in economy, finance, trade, science, technology, tourism, and
>cultural exchange.
>
>Foreign Minister Nien also made known that right at the informal summit,
>Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai had made a proposal on rotary
>organisation of 'ASEAN Cultural Weeks' and 'Culture and Tourism Fairs.' The
>proposal was warmly welcomed by the other ASEAN leaders who agreed that the
>proposal would be implemented at the coming functional conferences of ASEAN
>and ASEAN+3.
>
>He added that PM Khai had met with leaders of other ASEAN and north-east Asian
>countries, thus helped boost mutual understanding and support between Vietnam
>and its friends in co-operation for development and at international forums.
>(VNA)
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>Italian deputy defence minister visits Vietnam
>
>Deputy Defence Minister of Italy Giovanni Rivera paid a visit to Vietnam from
>November 22-25 as guest of the Ministry of Defence.
>While here, the Italian Deputy Defence Minister discussed with his Vietnamese
>counterpart Lieutenant General Truong Khanh Chau, ways to boost friendship
>between the two ministries. He visited the Army Museum, the Army Sports and
>Physical Training Centre, and a number of historical and cultural relic sites
>in Hanoi and Quang Ninh northern province. (VNA)
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