Viet Nam and the United States should work together to boost their co-operative relations in diverse fields, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the US Ambassador to Viet Nam, Raymond Burghardt, in Ha Noi on Thursday.
Dung said Viet Nam hoped to build a stable and long-standing framework for relations with the US.
He told Burghardt he appreciated the ambassador's efforts to strengthen relations between the two countries last year.
Dung said the countries needed to increase the number of visits between each other, carry out signed agreements and maintain an open communication channel to solve differences and issues of mutual concern.
During the meeting, Dung raised Vietnamese farmers' concerns about the dumping allegations by the Southern Shrimp Alliance and the Shrimp Association of the Louisiana State against countries exporting shrimp to the US, including Viet Nam.
Dung said he hoped the US would make a fair decision in settling the dispute.
Burghardt raised some of the countries' recent positive developments in the fields of politics, economics, trade, science and technology, education and training, health care, aid and security.
The ambassador said he was pleased with the initial outcomes of the countries' Bilateral Trade Agreement, which he considered an important basis to boost co-operative relations in the economy and trade.
He also praised the progress made in the search for American servicemen reported missing in action during the war, clearing unexploded mines and addressing the consequences of Agent Orange use in Viet Nam.
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