The Vietnamese Government has just set up the donation committee to call for financial support for organizing the APEC Summit in Vietnam, which lasts all this year in Vietnam, state media reported today.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan, Chairman of the APEC Steering Committee, signed the decision.
Accordingly, Vice President of Governmental Office Nguyen Cong Su has been selected as the Head of the committee. The body includes experts, cadres from the Foreign Ministry, Trade Ministry, Culture-Information Ministry and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The newly-setup body will draw out plans to call for support from enterprises, international organizations and allocate the assistance to organize events during this APEC year.
It will dissolve after the last APEC event, late this year.
The First Senior Official Meeting (SOM I) themed “Towards a Dynamic Community for Sustainable Development and Prosperity” concluded early last month.
The APEC summit 2006, hosted by Vietnam for the first time, is slated to be attend by all leaders of the organization, including President Bush, Prime Minister Koizumi, and Secretary General Hu Jintao.
Founded in November 1989, APEC now has 21 member economies. Vietnam joined the organization at the APEC Foreign-Economic Ministers Meeting in November 1998.
Over the past six years, the number of Vietnam’s cooperation projects within the framework of APEC has been on the rise, focusing on new areas such as competitive policy, intellectual property, biotechnology, e-commerce and information technology.
Vietnam Law, Vietnam Panorama
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