Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted the importance of joint work to boost Vietnam – France cooperation for better outcomes, while receiving outgoing French Ambassador to Vietnam Bertrand Lortholary in Hanoi on July 17.
Vietnam, with an impressive growth speed, has become an attractive destination for French investors, said participants at the France-Vietnam business forum, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 4.
A high-level delegation from the French Communist Party (PCF) led by Jean-Charles Negre, Politburo member and former standing member of the PCF Secretariat, is on a visit to Vietnam from April 22-26.
President of the French National Assembly Claude Bartolone has said he wants to hold exchanges with Vietnam’s relevant agencies on how to increase the investment of French businesses in Vietnam.
Prospects for wide-ranging cooperation between Vietnam and France
were talked of at a recent seminar held in the city of Tours , France
’s central Indre Et Loire province.
The Vietnamese Businesspeople Association in France (ABVietFrance) and
the France Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (CCIFV) will
coordinate in trade promotion, and culture healthcare and education
development between the two countries.
Vietnamese businesses should further sharpen their competitiveness to
enhance their presence in France, the commercial counsellor at the
Vietnamese Embassy in France Pham Xuan Yen said.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon
expressed his country’s wish to further develop its traditional
friendship and cooperation with Vietnam while meeting with Secretary of
the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai on Nov. 13 as part of
his visit to Vietnam.