Accompanying the vice minister include the representative of the Ministry, representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency – Japan and representative of the Department of international Cooperation – Water Resources Directorate – Vietnamese MARD.

Attending the meeting from VAWR included representative from IWE, Center for Training and International Cooperation, Center for Water Resources Software.

 Overview of the meeting

Assoc. Prof, Dr. Nguyen Tung Phong, Acting director of Institute for Water and Environment (IWE)  (fourth from left) gave a welcome speech at the meeting

H. E Abdul Qadeer Jawad Vice Minister of Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Husbandry

At the meeting, the vice minister expressed the interest in learning more about structure, mission and working area of VAWR; the research areas that implemented at VAWR especially the issues related with the counseling task for Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development from VAWR, the challenge met by the Academy recently.

Continued the exchanges, Dr. Tran Duc Trinh – Center for Training and International Cooperation has briefly introduced the mission, research activities and structure of VAWR and the two sides follow up with area of common interest for future collaboration between the two Ministries in which VAWR is a part of the collaboration.