PM Nguyen Tan Dzung on Monday had a working session with Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy at the WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Vietnamese PM Nguyen Tan Dzung (center, right) and his entourage land the Genevaairport, January 25, 2010
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Warmly welcoming PM Nguyen Tan Dzung and his entourage, WTO chief Pascal Lamy highly spoke of economic achievements gained by Vietnam for the past three years after joining the WTO membership.
Mr. Pascal Lamy showed his admiration to Vietnam’s positive growth rate in 2009 despite the global economic and financial crisis, describing the Southeast Asian country a rising star in the region.
He suggested Vietnam further perfect its legal system in conformity with WTO standards and vowed to support Vietnam’s global economic integration.
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| Vietnamese PM Nguyen Tan Dzung (R) and WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) at the WTO headquarters in Geneva, January 25, 2010 |
PM Nguyen Tan Dzung briefed some positive results of the admission to WTO, especially in GDP, trade and foreign investment.
Last year, Vietnam managed to secure a GDP growth rate of 5.32% and attract over US $21 billion of foreign investment capital.
PM Dzung stated that, as president of ASEAN in 2010, Vietnam and other ASEAN peers want to conclude the Doha Round for the sake of underdeveloped and developing countries.
According to the Vietnamese PM, ASEAN is confident that the conclusion of the Round will surely facilitate trade development and market penetration while reducing trade protectionism.
ASEAN is expected to play an intermediate role in 2010 in finishing the Doha Round on schedule.