(VOVworld) – Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai received the French Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Tourism Promotion and French overseas, Fleur Pellerin, in Hanoi on Tuesday. He confirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of fostering the strategic partnership with France, in which economic cooperation is one of the main pillars. He praised France’s continued ODA for Vietnam and asked France to continue working with Vietnamese partners in implementing cooperative projects in the country.

Fleur Pellerin said she hoped the Vietnamese government would devise appropriate policies to support French businesses to make long-term investment in Vietnam.