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(Cinet)- On August 10, Minister of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh had a working day with the US’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is activity in a framework of Vietnamese Cultural Days in the US.
At a working session, two sides said about a crucial role of culture and people-to-people exchanges in promoting friendship, peace and reconciliation between the two countries.
Minister Anh said that the US is expected to increase collaboration with Vietnam in human resources training in cinema, music and dance. The Minister proposed both countries sign agreements on tourism cooperation at the government level while facilitating collaboration and exchanges between Vietnamese and US tourist associations.
The US has become a leading investor in Vietnam’s tourism in recent years, evidenced by over 301,900 tourist arrivals to Vietnam in the first seven months of this year.
Anh took the occasion to thank the US Department of State for working with the Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to successfully organise Vietnamese days in the US.
He also thanked the Department’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation for supporting cultural preservation activities in Vietnam via non-governmental organisations.
The Vietnamese Government also expected to extend the visa duration for American tourists from three months to one year in a bid to welcome 1 million US visitors by 2017 and the US’s assistance in finding a site for the Vietnamese cultural centre in the US as well as its support for projects on cultural preservation and translation of American literature works into Vietnamese and vice versa.
In the up-coming, Minister proposed that two countries should continue to enhance developing cooperation in three fields of culture, sports and tourism including a training cooperation to develop cinema, dancing, music, performing arts and exchange program between two sides.
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