(VOVworld) - Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan had a meeting with the UK’s Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hugo Swire, in Seoul on Tuesday. During their meeting, Doan expressed her hope that the UK , as one of the key members of the European Union (EU), will lobby the EU to recognise Vietnam as a market-based economy. As the UK is also a key shareholder in the World Bank (WB), Vietnam hopes the UK will influence the bank to offer further development assistance loans to Vietnam , she said, adding her wish that the UK will continue to channel Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Vietnam from areas of the UK’s strength such as finance, petroleum-chemistry and science-technology. Doan also expressed her wish that the UK will soon cooperate with Vietnam to build a UK-Vietnam University in Da Nang city, adding that Vietnam wants the UK to serve as a bridge between the EU and ASEAN.