Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung affirmed Vietnam welcomes Finish investors and expects them to expand further business in the country, Vietnam News Agency said.
The Vietnamese Deputy PM marked the statement June 13 as paying visits to Finland’s leading corporations of UPM-Kymmene, Nokia and Wartsila on the occasion of his trip to the country.
During his talks with Finland’s biggest paper corporation, Hung emphasized the development of paper industry in parallel with material forest plantation one among priorities of Vietnam’s development investment policies.
Hung proposed the Nokia Corporation, which is accounting for 30 per cent of Vietnam’s phone market, to mull over the investment of a cell phone assembling line in his country. The Vietnamese government will give favorable conditions to the corporation to promote the project, he added.
The Deputy PM also applauded the Wartsila Corporation’s investment projects in fields of shipbuilding, marine services and energy and hoped the two sides would continue the closer cooperation in future.
Finland is the second leg of Hung’s tour to three northern European nations of Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
The trip to Finland is aimed at implementing agreements between the two countries’ leaders, which were signed during the Finnish President’s visit to Vietnam in February, and promoting the two countries’ cooperation in economy, trade, investment, labor, education and training, and science and technology.
While in Finland, Deputy PM Hung paid a courtesy visit to Finland’s President Tarja Halonen and met with Deputy Speaker of the Finnish Parliament Johannes Koskinen.
He also worked with Foreign Trade Minister Paavo Vayrynen, witnessed the signing of an inter-governmental agreement on technical assistance for Vietnam’s Program 135 on support for underprivileged areas, and held talks with Minister of Employment and the Economy Mauri Pekkarinen and Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen. (VNA)
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