US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Clune suggested a number
of future fields of cooperation between the US and Vietnam at the
seventh meeting of the Vietnam-US Joint Committee on Scientific and
Technological Cooperation in Hanoi on Dec. 10.
At
the two-day meeting that wrapped up on Dec. 10, discussion centred
around the fields of health care, ICT, oceanic
science-environment-climate change,
agriculture-biotechnology-biodiversity, scientific education and the
exchange of research, universe space, energy, traffic safety and
measurement standards.
More than 40 oceanic and
international environment scientists and researchers from the US
shared their experiences with almost 50 Vietnamese colleagues in the
field.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology
Tran Viet Thanh affirmed that the US is one of the important partners
in Vietnam ’s scientific and technological cooperation.
In the next decade, the two countries’ business and science-technology
communities will be offered many priorities for development, especially
in the sharing of information and knowledge, technology transfer and
renovation, the development of strong research teams, building and
implementation of joint research projects and encouragement of major US
groups to invest in Vietnam ’s science and technology, he said.
Apart from organizing the meeting under the two governments’
cooperation agreement in the field, the Vietnamese Ministry of Science
and Technology and US Department of State have organized a number of
significant events.
They include the Vietnam-US
scientific seminar on East Sea oceanography and the signing of a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Vietnam Academy of Science
and Technology and the New York Botanical Garden and a MoU between the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the US Department of
the Interior on scientific and technological cooperation in the earth
and effective management of natural resources./.
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