(VOVWORLD) -General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam met with leaders of international technology corporations and investment funds on Monday (local time) in New York as part of his trip to the US to attend the high-level week of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam (right) and Nick Ammann, Vice President of Global Government Affairs at Apple. (Photo: VNA) |
Receiving the Apple representatives, the Vietnamese leader said Vietnam has recently established a working group to implement cooperation with Apple. He called on Apple and its partners to support Vietnamese enterprises in improving their production capacity and participating in the global supply chain; consider setting up a research and development (R&D) center at the NIC; consider providing scholarships for Vietnamese students in the fields of information technology, programming, electronics, semiconductors, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Apple Vice President Nick Ammann spoke highly of the investment prospects in Vietnam, as well as the value of the Vietnamese market in the group’s global strategy and the country’s potential for engaging more deeply in the supply chain of its important products.
 Party General Secretary and State President To Lam and Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs at Meta. (Photo: VNA) |
At the meeting with the leaders of Meta Group, Vietnam’s top leader affirmed that the Party, State and People of Vietnam pledge to create all favourable conditions for US investors in general and Meta in particular to invest and do business effectively and sustainably in the country.
Meta's President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg committed to continuing to support and expand investment programmes and encourage innovation in Vietnam.
In a meeting with Founder and Senior Vice President of Business Development of Supermicro Wally Liaw, the Vietnamese leader welcomed the IT corporation's cooperation proposal on developing AI data centres and AI server system manufacturing ecosystems. He suggested that Supermicro and related partners soon negotiate a specific roadmap to implement cooperation projects in Vietnam.
The Party General Secretary and State President also received Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of Blackstone, a global private equity firm, Jake Siewert, Managing Director and Head of Global Public Policy and Political Risk at Warburg Pincus, one of the oldest and largest private equity funds in the world, and Eric Schmidt, former Chairman and CEO of Google.