On August 16, 2013, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Oleksiy Shovkoplias had a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural development of Vietnam Ms. Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu.
The issues related to the standardization and certification of agricultural products exported by the two countries to each other were discussed during the meeting. The two sides had also defined a number of issues to be considered in the framework of the Intergovernmental Commission meeting on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation to be held on October this year in Kiev
On behalf of the Ukrainian side, the meeting was also attended by the Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine V.Ya.Shybko and the Secretary of the Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission S.A.Filatov.