PM Nguyen Tan Dung on December 27 agreed that the mid-term consultative group (CG) meeting for Vietnam will be held in the central province of Ha Tinh.
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Mid-term CG meeting for Vietnam often takes place in June while the annual CG meeting December
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The Ministry of Planning and Investment, in coordination with the World Bank and relevant agencies, is assigned to take prime responsibility for organizing such important event.
The mid-term CG meeting is a forum for the Vietnamese Government and sponsors to review the Vietnam's socio-economic performance as well as the implementation of the country’s commitments to the previous meeting.
The event also provides an opportunity for the two sides to discuss measures to beef up coordination between the Government and sponsors.
At this year’s CG meeting on December 7-8 in Hanoi, international sponsors pledged to provide Vietnam with US $7.9 billion in official development assistance (ODA).
Since the first CG meeting in 1993 in Paris, France, annual event is periodically organized in December.
The mid-term CG meeting was introduced in 1998 and often takes place in June in different localities./.