Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai received Professor Thomas Vallely, Director of the Vietnam Program at Harvard University, and experts from Fulbright University Vietnam. (Photo: VGP)

At the reception, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai highly appreciated Professor Thomas Vallely for his many important contributions to promoting Vietnam-US relations, including in the fields of education and policy dialogue. "Professor Thomas Vallely is truly a close friend of Vietnam," the Deputy Prime Minister expressed. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the signing of the Joint Statement by the leaders of Vietnam and the United States to upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership has created a foundation to promote in-depth cooperation, especially cooperation in the field of education and training. Currently, the two sides have begun to concretize the contents of the joint statement. Having recently signed a Ministerial-level Memorandum of Cooperation on Education and Training (November 2023), Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai believes that this will be the basis for promoting substantive cooperation between US universities and Vietnamese universities. The Deputy Prime Minister welcomed the United States' continued long-term investment in Fulbright University in Vietnam, and affirmed that the Vietnamese Government will continue to pay attention and support Fulbright University to become one of the centers for training high-quality human resources in Vietnam. On behalf of the Vietnamese Government, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai thanked Mr. Thomas Vallely personally, the Harvard Kennedy School and Fulbright University for closely coordinating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to actively promote and prepare for the Vietnam Senior Leadership Program (VELP) 2024, scheduled to be held next April. Professor Thomas Vallely thanked the Deputy Prime Minister for taking the time to meet him; He gave an overview of the expected content of the VELP program and emphasized that he was looking forward to the discussion program at VELP 2024 with more dynamic and updated content that is suitable for current global developments as well as the development of the Vietnamese economy, especially solutions to both ensure macroeconomic stability, fiscal and monetary policies and sustainable economic development in the context of global fluctuations at present as well as future orientations in the next 2 to 3 decades.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai received Professor Thomas Vallely, Director of the Vietnam Program at Harvard University. (Photo: VGP)

According to Professor Thomas Vallely, within the framework of the VELP 2024 program, experts also shared and discussed topics related to renewable energy development; ensuring cyber security; cloud computing... semiconductor industry, chip manufacturing and global AI and prospects for Vietnam when participating in these value chains. Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai thanked Professor Thomas Vallely for sharing interesting content in the VELP 2024 program...; assigned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to coordinate with ministries and branches to carefully prepare the content for further discussion at the VELP Program in early April. The Deputy Prime Minister hopes that the upcoming VELP Program will open up new ideas for Vietnamese agencies in building and implementing development policies, not only proposing specific, feasible and suitable policies for Vietnam's conditions, but also providing priority focuses, roadmaps and the ability to connect with international resources. Thanking Professor Thomas Vallely and Harvard University and Fulbright University for their valuable cooperation in the past time, the Deputy Prime Minister hopes that the cooperative relationship between Vietnam and its US partners in general and cooperation in the fields of policy dialogue, human resource development, and education and training in particular will have stronger and more substantial developments in the coming time. The Deputy Prime Minister also hopes that high-level policy exchange programs such as VELP will continue to be implemented effectively and practically in the coming years.

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