Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnamese government highlyvalues the cooperation agreement with the World Economic Forum (WEF), DeputyPrime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue assured head of the WEF’s Asia-Pacific region JustinWood during a reception in Hanoi on November 15.

Hue hailed Wood’s visit to launch the Vietnam-WEF agreementon building a self-resilient Vietnamese economy and lauded the WEF for workingclosely with Vietnam to build a plan to implement the cooperation agreement inpriority fields of competitiveness improvement, inclusive development,infrastructure, education, digital economy, agriculture and food security.

According to him, the Vietnamese government approved theplan and assigned agencies concerned to work with the WEF to carry out specificactivities.

He affirmed that Vietnam treasures the WEF 2018, given thatthe country recently successfully held the APEC Year and APEC Economic Leaders’Week 2017 and is to host the WEF on ASEAN 2018.

The host wished to popularise the WEF on ASEAN to the globalbusiness community, thereby helping the Vietnamese government hold dialoguewith the world’ top businesses and spread commitments to reform and extensiveglobal integration.

Wood said the WEF will partner with Vietnamese ministries toeffectively implement the bilateral agreement.

The guest also took the occasion to invite Vietnamesegovernment leaders to the WEF Davos scheduled for 2018 in Switzerland.-VNA