Meeting Minutes

ORSAM - IAMES MEETING IN ORSAM ON 12 JULY 2010

A roundtable meeting was held between the delegations of Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM) and the Institute of Africa and Middle East Studies (IAMES) from Vietnam on 12nd July 2010. Issues such as Vietnam’s economic model, transformation in Vietnam’s economy, Vietnam’s relations with the Middle East, Vietnam’s export markets, and Vietnam’s possible role in Turkey’s opening towards new regions. The Vietnamese delegation consisted of Prof. Do Duc Dinh, the director of IAMES, Pham Tan Hoa from South-South Education Company, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hien the assistant editor of IAMES publications, Tran Thuy Phuong, the director of IAMES International Relations Department, Pham Thi  Kim Hue, the assistant researcher from Vietnam Foreign Ministry, Tran Thi Loi, the IAMES assistant for administration, Do Thang Duong from Vietnam Science and Technology Ministry and the first secretary in Vietnam’s Embassy to Turkey.