Vietnam active in G20 senior official meeting in Germany

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Hanoi (VNA) – Assistant to the Foreign Minister VuQuang Minh has highlighted theimportance of globalisation and multilateral trade, while calling for G20 countries’more attention to adjusting policies to ensure the equal distribution of benefitsbrought by globalisation, thus promoting inclusive and sustainabledevelopment. 

In his speech at the Sherpa Meeting of the G20Developing and Emerging Economies in Frankfurt, Germany on March 23-24, Minh,head of the delegation of Vietnam-the host of APEC 2017 to the meeting, suggesteda closer coordination between APEC and G20 in issuesof shared concern, especially in economic connectivity promotion.

Vietnamese delegates shared results and experience in solving issues related to globalisation and multilateral trade within theUN high-level meeting for the Euro-Asia region on improving cooperation ontransit, trade facilitation and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, andcooperation mechanisms in the Greater Mekong Subregion and the Ayeyawady-ChaoPhraya-Mekong and Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam (ACMECS-CLMV) Economic Cooperation Strategy.

They also proposed initiatives to promote economic links, tripartitecooperation to help Africa, and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, andthose to fight corruption and illegal trading of wild animals, and adapt toclimate change.

Looking toward to the theme “Shaping an interconnected world”, the meeting’sagenda  focused on the world’s economicprospect, and global development issues such as improving living standards, promotingtrade, investment and sustainable development, ensuring food security, andsupporting Africa countries.

Delegates also debated on issues related to health and disease; terrorism andcorruption prevention, climate change and energy, and immigration.

The meeting was part of preparations for the G20Summit slated for Hamburg city in early July 2017.

It is the second time Vietnam has been invitedto G20 Summit and related meetings. The country attended the G20 meetings in2010 in the Republic of Korea and Canada when it assumed the Chair of ASEAN. Thecountry’s attendance to the events importantly contributed to enhancing thecountry’s role and position in the international arena.

On the sidelines of the meeting, Assistant Minhhad separate meetings with head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperationand Development (OECD), and delegations from other G20 member economies.-VNA

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