date:Jul 20, 2012
When the Vietnamese President Troung Tan Sang visited Sri Lanka in October last year, the two countries agreed to expand bilateral trade up to the one billion US dollars within three years. Reports from Hanoi said that the two Ministers focused attention on increasing connectivity, removal of non-tariff barriers, movement towards a Preferential Trade Agreement and several other issues.
Following on the State Visit by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to Viet Nam in October 2009, the President of Viet