International and Bilateral Issues

Beginning 2010, Vietnam has implemented a 10-year long modernisation policy which has thrown open the need for products and services worth hundreds of millions of dollars. India, with a long standing expertise in almost every one of those field, can take advantage of the same,” said Truong Tan Sang, President of Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The President invited Indian business and technical expertise in sectors such as healthcare, oil and gas, manufacturing, agro-industry, pharmaceuticals, automotive, IT, shipping and ports, electrical consumer appliances, education and road infrastructure to name just a few.
He explained that Vietnam has expertise in sectors which India can also take advantage of, especially, poverty alleviation.
He explained how Vietnam has managed to keep the GDP growing by close to 7 per cent annually even during global recession.
Bilateral trade with Vietnam stands at close to $4 billion, ten times more than what it was in 2000
He expected bilateral trade between the two countries to cross $7 billion by 2015

A day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted at the possibility of holding ‘peace talks' with the Haqqani network, CIA-operated drones struck in the organisation's stronghold in North Waziristan on Thursday killing four suspected terrorists including a relative of Sirajuddin Haqqani.
The attacks took place while U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman was in Islamabad for talks after the recent stand-off over Washington's allegations regarding Pakistan's institutional links with terrorism.
Referring to Pakistan's sacrifices in fighting terrorism, he said the international community owed it to Pakistan and the region to acknowledge this and support these efforts.
Pakistan would attend the trilateral summit of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey in Istanbul next month.