Vietnam, EU to hold first round of timber talks
The first round of talks between the European Union and Vietnam for a bilateral FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement will be held from November 29-30 in Hanoi, said a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development official.
Tran Kim Long, deputy head of the ministry’s International Cooperation Department, was speaking outside a seminar on the impacts of a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) deal on Vietnam’s wood product exports to the EU.
