The president of the Assembly of the Republic, Esperança Bias, encouraged last Saturday the Vietnamese businessmen to invest more in Mozambique in several areas, especially the economic one.

"We have Vietnamese companies in Mozambique producing rice, and the mobile communications firm MOVITEL operating in the country" said Bias, quoted by Jornal Notícias.

The head of the Mozambican parliament also thanked the Asian country for the support it gave Mozambique to be elected a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

For his part, Quang Ninh, Nguyen Xuan Ky, provincial secretary of the Communist Party of Quang Ninh, Nguyen Xuan Ky, said that his country continues to cooperate with Mozambique in various areas and thanked the visit of the president of the Assembly of the Republic, to that country.