On December 20, 2012 the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Oleksiy Shovkoplias had a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, Head of the Vietnamese part of the Ukrainian-Vietnamese Intergovernmental commission on the trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation Tran Quoc Khanh.
During the meeting both sides reported on the implementation of the agreements reached during the last 13th session of the Ukrainian-Vietnamese Intergovernmental commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation.
At the meeting the possibility of speeding up the signing of the free trade agreement between Ukraine and Vietnam as well as the timing for the next 14th session of the Ukrainian-Vietnamese Intergovernmental commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation were discussed.