Viet Nam Development Partnership Forum (VDPF) opens in Ha Noi, December 5, 2013 - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh and World Bank's Country Director to Viet Nam Victoria Kwakwa co-hosted the forum.

At the event, delegates discussed policies between the Vietnamese Government and sponsors, international and domestic social organizations, domestic research institutions and other development factors to promote the comprehensive socio-economic development in Viet Nam.

Crucial issues to be tabled at the forum include poverty reduction for ethnic minorities, enhanced involvement of the private sector in clean water supply and sanitation, improvement of the environmental management system and competitiveness enhancement through skills improvement and vocational training.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung delivered a report on the country's socio-economic development and orientations in the following years.

Over the past 20 years, the Vietnamese Government has cooperated with international donors in organizing successfully the annual Consultative Group Meeting of Donors, which is now replaced by the VDPF.

From an underdeveloped country in 1990, Viet Nam has risen to become a middle-income nation and fulfilled the Millennium Development Goal on poverty reduction.

At this forum, the PM expected to receive comments and consultancy to establish suitable policy mechanisms as well as assistance from donors to successfully realize national development goals and orientations in the future.

PM Dung briefed participants on the Viet Nam National Assembly's approval of the amendments to the 1992 Constitution at the sixth session of the 13th National Assembly as to a number of crucial laws.

Viet Nam is negotiating six Free Trade Agreements with top partners such as China, Japan, the US and the EU, which helps the nation make breakthroughs in setting up mechanisms and create a more effective and competitive environment for national development.

By Thuy Dung

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