The Vietnam News Agency reported that national oil company (NOC)PetroVietnam had signed a memorandum with one of its In- dian counterparts Oil&Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC)to jointly explore for crude oil.This cooperation would not only take place in Vietnam and India,but also possibly in a third,yet-to-be-determined country.No further details were available at the time of writing. This agreement took place in the context of a visit by Vietnam- ese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong,the country's most powerful official,to New Delhi.The visit also gen- erated as many as 13 agreements in bilateral cooperation in other areas–from trade and air links to finance and education.
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