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Forum to foster economic cooperation in Francophone community

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF) will hold a regional forum on economic cooperation among French-speaking nations in Hanoi from April 3-4.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairsand the International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF) will hold aregional forum on economic cooperation among French-speaking nations inHanoi from April 3-4.

The forum is expected to bring togetherabout 150 participants from several of Vietnam’s ministries, the VietnamChamber of Commerce and Industry, the OIF, the network of structuresand institutions in charge of Francophone in regions across theworld, organisations involved with economic cooperation, enterprisesand development partners.

It will include three sessions,focusing on how to promote economic cooperation in the FrancophoneCommunity towards sustainable economic growth in the time to come.

Ata meeting in Laos in October last year, the network of structuresand institutions in charge of Francophone in Asia-Pacificproposed a plan to establish a regional forum on economic cooperationto submit to the 15th Francophone Summit in Senegal in November2014.

This is considered an important change in the cooperationframework of the Francophone Community, which always focuses on thefields of politics, language and culture.-VNA

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