Up to 110 Vietnamese businesses, who will accompany State President Nguyen Minh Triet to take landmark visit to Japan next week, expect to sign contracts of estimated US$3 billion with the sun-rising country’s partners, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) said.
The VCCI affirmed the delegation will include leaders of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, Vietnam Construction Import-Export Corporation (Vinaconex), Vietnam Railway Corporation, Vietnam Steel Corporation, PetroVietnam, Posts and Telecoms, Electricity of Vietnam, and banks of Eximbank, BIDV, Asia Bank, Agribank.
Triet will be also accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai, Ministers of Trade and Industry, Planning and Investment, Science and Technology, and many other senior state officials.
The Vietnamese president is scheduled to start his first landmark visit to Japan from November 25-29 to reinforce the bilateral diplomatic relations and expand the trade, investment ties, particularly in ODA field, Foreign Affairs spokesman Le Dung said at a Hanoi press conference on November 22.
Also on the same day, President Triet answered the interview by Japanese journalists in Hanoi before the visit, of which contents were focused on the bilateral cooperation between Vietnam and Japan and some concerned international and regional issues.
“The two nations now are trying their utmost to complete negotiations on signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which was kicked off early this year,” Triet said in the interview, affirming that “EPA would extremely contribute to raise the Vietnam-Japan relations to new heights.”
The State leader also highly spoke Japan's ODA contributions to the country's socioeconomic and infrastructure development. He hoped the Japanese government to expand ODA capitals to other fields and called for Japanese investors to join hands with Vietnamese authorities to resolve traffic jams in the two big cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Japan has been the country's leading ODA supplier over 15 past years, accounting for 30 per cent of total ODA of foreign donors to Vietnam. (Local sources)
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