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French PM plans to boost economic relations with Vietnam.
PARIS, November 12 (Itar-Tass) - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon starts a three-day visit to Vietnam on Thursday. The main aim of the trip is to boost economic relations between the two countries.
Vietnam is among a few states, maintaining high rates of economic
development in the conditions of the world financial crisis. The country's
GDP increased by 150 percent between 2002 and 2008, which makes its
economy one of the most dynamically developing in the world.
The French premier is accompanied by a delegation of ministers and
businessmen, numbering 45. They include heads of such corporations as
Arianespace and France Telecom as well as the European EADS aerospace and
defence corporation.
Fillon will hold talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung
and general secretary of the central committee of the Vietnamese Communist
Party Nong Duc Manh.
The sides are expected to sign several contracts during the visit of
the French premier and to initial intergovernmental treaties on trade and
economic cooperation.
One of them will deal with partnership in the nuclear sphere. The
Vietnamese parliament adopted a law in June 2008, permitting authorities
to create civil nuclear power industry in the country. Vietnam intends now
to build the first nuclear power station. France, Japan and China offer
their services in this connection. France hopes that the development of
this project will be awarded precisely to it.
France's share in Vietnamese import dropped considerably over the past
few years from 4.2 percent to 1.2 percent. France substantially lags
behind above all the United States in commercial relations with Vietnam,
which developed boisterous activities in that country.
.NKorea regards Yellow Sea incident "premeditated provocation".
PYONGYANG, November 12 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea regards an incident
that took place in the Yellow Sea on November 10, "a premeditated and
plotted provocation" by South Korea, says an article, published on
Thursday in the leading republican newspaper Rodong Sinmun.
The article stresses that prior to the incident, South Korean warships
lined up into a military array and were in combat readiness.
According to a version of the North, South Korean warships were the
first to open fire on the patrol boat of the North Korean navy, returning
to its port after fulfilling a mission on identifying an object that
intruded the republic's territorial waters. Pyongyang alleges that
warships of the South turned back after the North Korean boat "made an
immediate retaliatory strike".
Rodong Sinmun writes that "South Korean conservatives and militarists
are to blame for the armed clash in the Yellow Sea, since they seek to
scuttle the dialogue between the North and the South, pumping up tension
and military confrontation in the Korean Peninsula".
"We shall not keep silent about the situation when instigators intrude
our territorial waters and start shooting," Pyongyang said. "If South
Korean authorities continue to follow the road of confrontation and war,
disregarding trends of the time and aspirations of the nation (for
reconciliation), they will run into serious consequences," warn the North
Korean mass media.
.SKorea shifts advanced destroyer to North Korea sea border.
SEOUL, November 12 (Itar-Tass) - South Korea shifted one of its
advanced destroyers to an area of the border in the Yellow Sea, reported
on Thursday a spokesman of the South Korean military command.
This was done to reinforce the fleet close to the so-called northern
demarcation line in the area where a firing engagement took place on
Tuesday between patrol boats of the two Koreas.
The warship will operate along with another destroyer and additionally
shifted two patrol boats. "In actual fact, this means mobilisation of the
entire combat power of the Second Fleet of the South Korean navy," the
source emphasised. The new destroyer with a 4,500-tonne displacement and
the crew of 300 joined the navy in September 2008. It is capable of
developing a speed of up to 30 knots, is armed with torpedoes, artillery
units and guided missiles.
The South Korean spokesman also reported on Thursday that a North
Korean patrol boat which caught fire during a firing engagement on
Tuesday, was towed to its port by a tugboat. It covered nearly all the way
home independently and was forced to call for help at the last leg of the
trip.
The North Korean boat made 50 shots during the two-minute gun battle
in reply to several hundred shots from the South Korean side. According to
a Pyongyang version, the superior forces of South Korean ships violated
North Korean territorial waters. However, an impressive strike was
inflicted on them, and then they retreated.
The demarcation line had been drawn after the 1950-1953 Korean War by
Americans who operated under the aegis of UN forces. North Korea has never
recognised it and demanded its shifting to the south. Serious armed
clashes between patrol boats of the two Koreans took place precisely in
this area (rich in fish) in 1999 and 2002. They ended in losses in
manpower and military materiel.
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Vietnam is among a few states, maintaining high rates of economic
development in the conditions of the world financial crisis. The country's
GDP increased by 150 percent between 2002 and 2008, which makes its
economy one of the most dynamically developing in the world.
The French premier is accompanied by a delegation of ministers and
businessmen, numbering 45. They include heads of such corporations as
Arianespace and France Telecom as well as the European EADS aerospace and
defence corporation.
Fillon will hold talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung
and general secretary of the central committee of the Vietnamese Communist
Party Nong Duc Manh.
The sides are expected to sign several contracts during the visit of
the French premier and to initial intergovernmental treaties on trade and
economic cooperation.
One of them will deal with partnership in the nuclear sphere. The
Vietnamese parliament adopted a law in June 2008, permitting authorities
to create civil nuclear power industry in the country. Vietnam intends now
to build the first nuclear power station. France, Japan and China offer
their services in this connection. France hopes that the development of
this project will be awarded precisely to it.
France's share in Vietnamese import dropped considerably over the past
few years from 4.2 percent to 1.2 percent. France substantially lags
behind above all the United States in commercial relations with Vietnam,
which developed boisterous activities in that country.
.NKorea regards Yellow Sea incident "premeditated provocation".
PYONGYANG, November 12 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea regards an incident
that took place in the Yellow Sea on November 10, "a premeditated and
plotted provocation" by South Korea, says an article, published on
Thursday in the leading republican newspaper Rodong Sinmun.
The article stresses that prior to the incident, South Korean warships
lined up into a military array and were in combat readiness.
According to a version of the North, South Korean warships were the
first to open fire on the patrol boat of the North Korean navy, returning
to its port after fulfilling a mission on identifying an object that
intruded the republic's territorial waters. Pyongyang alleges that
warships of the South turned back after the North Korean boat "made an
immediate retaliatory strike".
Rodong Sinmun writes that "South Korean conservatives and militarists
are to blame for the armed clash in the Yellow Sea, since they seek to
scuttle the dialogue between the North and the South, pumping up tension
and military confrontation in the Korean Peninsula".
"We shall not keep silent about the situation when instigators intrude
our territorial waters and start shooting," Pyongyang said. "If South
Korean authorities continue to follow the road of confrontation and war,
disregarding trends of the time and aspirations of the nation (for
reconciliation), they will run into serious consequences," warn the North
Korean mass media.
.SKorea shifts advanced destroyer to North Korea sea border.
SEOUL, November 12 (Itar-Tass) - South Korea shifted one of its
advanced destroyers to an area of the border in the Yellow Sea, reported
on Thursday a spokesman of the South Korean military command.
This was done to reinforce the fleet close to the so-called northern
demarcation line in the area where a firing engagement took place on
Tuesday between patrol boats of the two Koreas.
The warship will operate along with another destroyer and additionally
shifted two patrol boats. "In actual fact, this means mobilisation of the
entire combat power of the Second Fleet of the South Korean navy," the
source emphasised. The new destroyer with a 4,500-tonne displacement and
the crew of 300 joined the navy in September 2008. It is capable of
developing a speed of up to 30 knots, is armed with torpedoes, artillery
units and guided missiles.
The South Korean spokesman also reported on Thursday that a North
Korean patrol boat which caught fire during a firing engagement on
Tuesday, was towed to its port by a tugboat. It covered nearly all the way
home independently and was forced to call for help at the last leg of the
trip.
The North Korean boat made 50 shots during the two-minute gun battle
in reply to several hundred shots from the South Korean side. According to
a Pyongyang version, the superior forces of South Korean ships violated
North Korean territorial waters. However, an impressive strike was
inflicted on them, and then they retreated.
The demarcation line had been drawn after the 1950-1953 Korean War by
Americans who operated under the aegis of UN forces. North Korea has never
recognised it and demanded its shifting to the south. Serious armed
clashes between patrol boats of the two Koreans took place precisely in
this area (rich in fish) in 1999 and 2002. They ended in losses in
manpower and military materiel.
-0-bur
