Politburo member and Head of the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Ho Duc Viet paid a four-day visit to Italy from June 20 to seek personnel training cooperation.

Viet, who is also head of the steering committee of an overseas training project for leaders and administrators by State budget (project 165), had meetings with Italian Minister of Public Administration Reform and Innovation Renato Brunetta, President of the Italian Administration Academy and leaders of the Institution for International Relations and several leading universities of the country.

The two sides agreed to soon sign agreements on arrangement for delegations to study in Italy, with focus on public administration management, planning and management, cultural heritage preservation, tourism development, European study, development of public-private partnership (PPP) projects, government purchase and experience in dealing with natural disasters’ consequences.

From now to the year-end, leading Italian experts will be invited to Vietnam to talk about government purchase and PPP.

During his stay in Italy, Viet paid a courtesy visit to Secretary General of the Communist Refoundation Party of Italy, Oliviero Diliberto./.