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Mozambique: Country 'Can Learn From Vietnam's Development' - Guebuza
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
5 April 2008
Posted to the web 7 April 2008
Maputo
Mozambique can learn a great deal from Vietnam, "particularly from your positive experience of rapid, but sustainable development", declared President Armando Guebuza on Friday night.
He was speaking at a banquet offered in honour of the General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nong Duc Manh, who is on a three day state visit to Mozambique.
Guebuza praised Vietnam for showing on the economic front, "the same determination as shown yesterday against foreign rule". As a result, the Vietnam of today "is proud that it has overcome hunger and many other expressions of poverty, and is advancing decidedly towards growing prosperity for its heroic people".
"These lessons inspire us", he continued, "and deepen our conviction that in Mozambique too we shall defeat hunger and many of the current expressions of poverty".
In this advance, Guebuza continued, Mozambique "will count on the positive experiences of Vietnam, its technologies, and its active and enterprising business sector".
He paid tribute to the founder of Vietnamese nationalism and of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh, who led the movement for independence from France, culminating in the crushing defeat imposed on the French colonial army at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
The American occupation of the southern part of the country, and its imposition of a puppet regime led to renewed warfare, but Ho Chi Minh died in 1969 before he could see the country reunited.
Guebuza described Ho Chi Minh as "a tireless freedom fighter", and said his example "has inspired generations of fighters for freedom and prosperity in Mozambique". His name lives on in Mozambique, where one of the tree-lined avenues of central Maputo has been named in his honour.
Nong Duc Manh declared that his visit "is an expression of solidarity and friendship and of the desire of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and the Vietnamese state and people, to raise our ties of cooperation to a new height".
Both countries, he said, had waged "long, tough and extremely courageous struggles against colonialism and imperialism in order to win independence and freedom".
The Joint Cooperation Commission, set up under an agreement signed earlier in the day, said Nong, "will act as the coordinating body for strengthening cooperation between our two countries", and he pledged that in the near future they will send resident ambassadors to each other's capitals.
"We have agreed to expand and speed up economic cooperation, trade and investment, based on the potential and the advantages of each country", said Nong. He listed the areas in which fruitful cooperation was possible as agriculture, fisheries, the exploitation and processing of timber, the pharmaceutical industry, health care, education, science and technology and the environment.
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The two governments, he added, "will facilitate Vietnamese and Mozambican businesses in expanding stable and lasting cooperation, on a footing of equality and mutual advantage, for the sustainable development of each of our countries".
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