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The just-concluded meeting in Ottawa, Canada, was intended to review the implementation of the 2016-2020 cooperative action plan and design future cooperative activities.
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Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung said that Vietnam always attaches importance to developing ASEAN-Canada ties. He suggested both sides strengthen cooperation in politics and security via existing cooperative mechanisms, including the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and ASEAN-Canada consultations. Dung asked Canada to provide more scholarships for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, expand tourism cooperation, and hold more people-to-people exchanges. He called on Canada to encourage its businesses to invest in infrastructure projects, development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and start-up activities in ASEAN countries.
