Thailand, Montenegro to Expand Cooperation

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Thailand and Montenegro have agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture, food industry, fishery, tourism, trade and investment, Thai News Agency reported Saturday. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who arrived in Podgorica, capital of Montenegro, on Saturday, has held bilateral talks with her Montenegrin counterpart Milo Djukanovic. Both leaders hailed the good bilateral relations since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 2007. Yingluck's trip marked the first visit of a Thai prime minister to Montenegro which could be a new potential market for Thai trade and investment. The Thai and Montenegrin prime ministers said that both countries had agreed to be mutual gateways for trade and investment, to Balkan Peninsula and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Both sides have also agreed to foster the establishment of partnership for the tourism sector, fishery and agriculture.