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DA NANG CITY, Vietnam, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam would like to receive China's continued support in the fight against bird flu, especially the supply of poultry vaccines against bird flu viruses, a local minister said here Friday.
"We would like to strengthen all-round cooperative ties with the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. We want China to keep on assisting us in battling bird flu by supplying fowl vaccines and training agriculture personnel, among other things," Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said when holding a bilateral meeting with Chinese Deputy Minister of Agriculture Yin Chengjie on the occasion of an ongoing APEC bird flu meeting.
The APEC Ministerial Meeting on Avian and Influenza Pandemics held in central Da Nang city on Friday praised Vietnam for its basic control over bird flu, Phat said, noting that China "has contributed an important part to the success".
"Last year, we made urgent orders for Chinese vaccines against bird flu viruses among poultry. At that time, China also needed the vaccines, but China fervently supplied us," the minister said, noting that the Chinese government even spent 1.5 million renminbi (187,200 U.S. dollars) chartering a plane to carry the vaccines to Vietnam.
Besides bird flu prevention, Vietnam wants to step up coordination and cooperation with China in all other agriculture fields, including manpower training, experience sharing, delegation exchange and technical research, the minister said, noting that China "has quickly satisfied Vietnam's proposals like provisions of bird flu vaccines and hybrid rice varieties."
"We have cooperated for not only economic and technical reasons, but also because leaders of the two countries have defined that we are good neighbors, good friends, good partners and good comrades," Phat stated.
Yin said China would like to broaden and deepen friendly and cooperative ties with Vietnam in various spheres, including agriculture. The Chinese officials proposed that the two countries' agriculture ministries should forge cooperation and coordination in four fields.
The fields include keep on cooperating on preventing and fighting against bird flu through exchanging experiences, monitoring disease situations in border areas, and supplying fowl vaccines; preventing and combating cattle diseases via training veterinary staff, conducting research, and supplying vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease and other cattle diseases; promoting sales of farm produces and agricultural machines; and intensifying manpower training as well as scientific and technological cooperation.
Some 190 representatives, including seven health and agriculture ministers and 13 deputy ministers from the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the APEC's Secretariat and five international organizations are attending the one-day ministerial meeting.
They are expected to discuss and show political commitments to developing plans for continuity of operations and other actions to mitigate socioeconomic impact of a pandemic with a focus on such topics as cross sectoral cooperation, communication, trade and private sector. They are also scheduled to review and touch upon ongoing projects and programs to tackle AI pandemics in the APEC region, implementation of recommendations from various regional and international events on bird flu pandemics control, mobilization and allocation of 1.9 billion U.S. dollars pledged at the Beijing Ministerial Conference, mobilization of international support to bird flu control action plan of Vietnam, and a plan action on prevention and response to pandemics in the region. Enditem
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"We would like to strengthen all-round cooperative ties with the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. We want China to keep on assisting us in battling bird flu by supplying fowl vaccines and training agriculture personnel, among other things," Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said when holding a bilateral meeting with Chinese Deputy Minister of Agriculture Yin Chengjie on the occasion of an ongoing APEC bird flu meeting.
The APEC Ministerial Meeting on Avian and Influenza Pandemics held in central Da Nang city on Friday praised Vietnam for its basic control over bird flu, Phat said, noting that China "has contributed an important part to the success".
"Last year, we made urgent orders for Chinese vaccines against bird flu viruses among poultry. At that time, China also needed the vaccines, but China fervently supplied us," the minister said, noting that the Chinese government even spent 1.5 million renminbi (187,200 U.S. dollars) chartering a plane to carry the vaccines to Vietnam.
Besides bird flu prevention, Vietnam wants to step up coordination and cooperation with China in all other agriculture fields, including manpower training, experience sharing, delegation exchange and technical research, the minister said, noting that China "has quickly satisfied Vietnam's proposals like provisions of bird flu vaccines and hybrid rice varieties."
"We have cooperated for not only economic and technical reasons, but also because leaders of the two countries have defined that we are good neighbors, good friends, good partners and good comrades," Phat stated.
Yin said China would like to broaden and deepen friendly and cooperative ties with Vietnam in various spheres, including agriculture. The Chinese officials proposed that the two countries' agriculture ministries should forge cooperation and coordination in four fields.
The fields include keep on cooperating on preventing and fighting against bird flu through exchanging experiences, monitoring disease situations in border areas, and supplying fowl vaccines; preventing and combating cattle diseases via training veterinary staff, conducting research, and supplying vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease and other cattle diseases; promoting sales of farm produces and agricultural machines; and intensifying manpower training as well as scientific and technological cooperation.
Some 190 representatives, including seven health and agriculture ministers and 13 deputy ministers from the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the APEC's Secretariat and five international organizations are attending the one-day ministerial meeting.
They are expected to discuss and show political commitments to developing plans for continuity of operations and other actions to mitigate socioeconomic impact of a pandemic with a focus on such topics as cross sectoral cooperation, communication, trade and private sector. They are also scheduled to review and touch upon ongoing projects and programs to tackle AI pandemics in the APEC region, implementation of recommendations from various regional and international events on bird flu pandemics control, mobilization and allocation of 1.9 billion U.S. dollars pledged at the Beijing Ministerial Conference, mobilization of international support to bird flu control action plan of Vietnam, and a plan action on prevention and response to pandemics in the region. Enditem
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