Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Trade Minister Truong Dinh Tuyen paid a working visit to the United States from June 7 to 10 after attending a meeting of Asian-Pacific economic ministers.

While there, he had a series of working sessions with US Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, Assistant Secretary of State Anthony Wayne, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, House Republican Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce, the Vietnam-US Friendship Parliamentarians' Group and senior officials from the Presidential Office and Finance Department.

At these sessions, Minister Tuyen exchanged views with US officials about how to boost the two countries' economic and trade relations, also he probes ways to remove hindrances to the implementation of the Bilateral Trade Agreement.

He informed them of the new moves Vietnam has made in the 8th round of negotiations for its bid to WTO and proposed that the US side speed up the negotiation tempo. The US affirmed their support for Vietnam's drive for WTO admission and promised to send a delegation to Vietnam for continued negotiations after the June talks in Geneva.

While in the US, Minister Tuyen also met entrepreneurs from the US-Vietnam Trade Council and the US-ASEAN Business Council. (VNA)