Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been made in Viet Nam-Argentina relations through the exchange of visits by senior leaders, including former Argentine President Carlos Menem’s visit to Ha Noi in 1997, former Vietnamese State President Tran Duc Luong and former National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Van An’s visits to Argentina in 2004 and 2006 respectively and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s visit in 2010.
The two-way trade between the two countries has grown steadily since 2005. In the first nine months of 2012, the figure rose more than 13 per cent over the same period last year, reaching $760 million, statistics show.
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