PM Dung meets US business community
The PM was speaking during a dialogue in New York on
September 27 with representatives of leading US economic groups Metlife,
GE, IBM, AES, Warburg Pincus, Coca-Cola and Ford.
He emphasised
again that the country wants to further promote cooperation with the US
in all fields, especially economics, trade and investment.
The
Vietnamese leader cited the growing investment in the country’s
infrastructure development as one of its major breakthroughs and
stressed that it now intends to achieve high-quality human resources
development. He called on US investors to get involved in the resulting
opportunities.
Vietnam and the US have agreed to lift their
relations to a comprehensive cooperative partnership, he said, adding
that the prospect of the forthcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP)
will fuel trade and economic ties between the two countries.
He
expressed his hope the newly established partnership and the upcoming
trade deal will make the US the biggest trade partner and foreign
investor in Vietnam.
The PM also assured the US participants of
the Vietnamese Government’s commitment to continuously improving the
business climate and facilitating foreign businesses to launch effective
and long-term operations in the country.
During the dialogue,
the Prime Minister answered questions relating to the Government’s
immediate and long-term priorities and measures to maintain
macro-economic stability, inflation control, economic restructuring and
growth model reform.
He presented the country’s economic
restructuring process, particularly focusing on reforms to State-owned
enterprises, the banking system and bad debt settlements while
explaining how Vietnam tries to become more economically competitive.
The
PM said he wants US economic groups to support Vietnam’s request for an
end to discrimination against its goods, especially tra fish.
The
US is Vietnam’s leading trade partner with total two-way trade between
them reaching 25 billion USD in 2012. The figure was 17 billion USD in
the first seven months of this year and it is expected to amount to 30
billion USD by the end of the year.
The US is currently the
seventh biggest foreign investor in Vietnam, running 660 projects with a
total registered capital of 11 billion USD.-VNA