U.K., Vietnam to Focus on E-Trade, Investment-Envoy

Vietnam and the United Kingdom will focus on boosting the bilateral e-trade and investment ties during the coming visit of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung with a number of significant agreements to be signed, U.K. Ambassador to Vietnam, Mark Kent told the local Vietnam Investment Review newspaper Friday.

 

The areas are among five the U.K. will deepen with Vietnam in the future, including the trade and investment, education, immigration and crime prevention. The Vietnamese prime minister’s visit will help expand the bilateral trade, which reached US$1.8 billion last year, the U.K. envoy noted.

 

Of the figure, Vietnam exported US$1.56 billion, he said, advising Vietnamese companies should concentrate on high-tech commodities; therefore they must attach importance to training high-qualified labor force.

 

Through DIFID, the U.K. government will support the Vietnamese government in finalizing its WTO commitments in the coming time, he said.

 

Mr. Dung will pay a 9-day visit to Germany, the United Kingdom and North Ireland from March 3 at the invitations of U.K. PM Gordon Brown, German PM Angela Merkel and Irish PM Bertie Ahern, Vietnam News Agency said Wednesday. (Vietnam Investment Review, VNA)