Viet Nam thanks World Bank for help, vows to push reforms
HA NOI — Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has told the deputy chairman of the World Bank, Jemal-Ul-Din Kassum, that Viet Nam is grateful for the bank’s assistance in recent years.
Dung welcomed Kassum’s visit to Viet Nam, where he attended an anti-corruption seminar.
The deputy prime minister told Kassum that Viet Nam will follow four policies as it attempts to become an industrial country by 2020 and double its gross domestic product by 2010.
These were to pursue a diversified market economy, acelerate regional and international intergration and accede to the World Trade Organisation, develop national economy; eradicate hunger and alleviate poverty while protecting the environment; and building an effective, law-governed State.
Dung said the Government was determined to reform State-owned enterprises and commercial banks, and fight corruption through international co-operation.
Kassum said he admired Viet Nam’s resolve to combat corruption and its co-operation with the World Bank that lead to the anti-corruption seminar.
He promised to assist Viet Nam’s accession to the WTO and said he hoped it would be successful at the organisation’s next meeting in Hong Kong. — VNS
