Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with representatives from more than 40 UK enterprises in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 3 (local time). (Photo: VNA)The businesses are operating in the spheres offinance, banking, investment and asset management, auditing and insurance.
In his remarks, the PM emphasised Vietnam’s views oninvestment cooperation that is based on the harmony of interests and thesharing of risks.
Regarding investment opportunities and advantages inVietnam, he said the country has a stable political environment, with aforeign policy of self-reliance, diversification and multilateralisation,and being a good friend, a reliable partner, and a responsible member of theinternational community.
Vietnam is integrating intensively and extensivelyinto the world, as the country has signed 17 free trade agreements, including thosewith major markets, according to Chinh.
He also introduced Vietnam’s consistent policytowards investors, along with its advantages in terms of human resources,natural conditions, social settings and sustainable development policy.
At the meeting, VinaCapital General Director Don Lam, saidVietnam is expected to restore its growth trend strongly and have manyinvestment opportunities after the COVID-19 is brought under control.
According to Don Lam, the participating businessesthat own more than 1 trillion USD would invest some 10 billion USD in Vietnam.
Prior to the meeting, the PM had a separate meetingwith Don Lam, during which he called on VinaCapital to pourinvestments not only into the stock market but also financial centres in Vietnam.
The leader was in the UK from October 31 to November 3to attend the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties(COP26) and pay a working visit to the UK at the invitation of his counterpartBoris Johnson./.
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