Azerbaijan, Vietnam to Convene 3rd Intergovernmental Commission Meeting

The 3rd meeting of the Azerbaijan-Vietnam Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Trade, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation is set to take place in Hanoi on July 16-17.

The agreement to convene the meeting was reached during the visit of To Lam, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, to Azerbaijan in early May, The Caspian Post reports, citing local media.

The commission is co-chaired by Parviz Shahbazov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Energy, and Nguyen Hong Dien, Vietnam’s Minister of Industry and Trade.

As part of the 3rd meeting, the Vietnam-Azerbaijan Business Forum and the first meeting of the Vietnam-Azerbaijan Joint Business Council will also be held, in line with the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Azerbaijan’s Small and Medium Business Development Agency (KOBIA) and the Vietnam National Association of Entrepreneurship (VINEN).

The 2nd meeting of the Azerbaijan-Vietnam Intergovernmental Commission was held in Baku in 2018.