PM Nguyen Tan Dung and his entourage earlier this morning landed in Copenhagen, beginning their official visit to Denmark at the invitation of his Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen.
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PM Nguyen Tan Dung, his spouse and entourage arrive in Denmark, September 16, 2009
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The visit aims at enhancing and consolidating the Vietnam-Denmark friendship and multi-faceted cooperation, particularly in the fields of economics, trade, investment and responding to climate change.
During his visit, PM Dung will hold talks with Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmusse, have separate meetings with Queen Magrethe II and the Speaker of the Parliament, and attend the Vietnam–Denmark Business Forum.
Denmark is one of the first European countries that set up diplomatic relations with Vietnam (November 25, 1971). Since then, the two sides have regularly exchanged high-ranking delegations.
The two-way trade turnover is increasing year after year, reaching US $226 million in 2006, US $308 in 2007, and US $318 in 2008. Vietnam mainly exports to Denmark garments and textiles, footwear, wood furniture, fine arts and handicraft products, electrical appliances, and coffee.
Denmark now ranks the 22nd among 82 countries and territories and the 5th among the EU members doing investment in Vietnam. It is also one of the main official development aid providers for Vietnam in the northern European region.
In responding to climate change, Denmark committed a US $40-million package for Vietnam’s program on adapting and mitigating impacts of global climate change.
Currently, around 12,000 Vietnamese people are deeply-rooted in Denmark./.