(VOVworld)- The Vietnam Development Partner Forum opened in Hanoi on Saturday. Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh and World Bank Country Director Vitoria Kwakwa co-chaired the forum. Senior officials from international organizations, Ambassadors, heads of diplomatic corps and Vietnam’s development partners, and representatives from the Vietnamese government, ministries and sectors attended the event.

Vietnam Development Partner Forum 2015 opens

Under the theme “Toward competitive, inclusive and sustainable growth”, the forum focused on Vietnam’s 2016-2020 socio-economic development plan and three strategic breakthroughs in the socio-economic strategy from 2011 to 2020. In his opening speech, Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh affirmed the Vietnamese government’s wish to receive development partners’ comment on Vietnam’s socio-economic development plan in the last five years, its targets for the next five years and breakthrough solutions. World Bank Country Director Victoria Kwakwa commented on Vietnam’s plan in the next five years. She stressed on four major issues including challenges in productivity, environment footprint in growth, poverty and social welfares and capacity, and the Government’s accountability.

Participants introduced recommendations on reforming institution, restructuring SOEs, improving business environment, raising productivity, fighting corruption, and associating economic growth with social security and law.

In his address, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Vietnam aims to achieve faster and more sustainable growth in the next five years obtaining a GDP growth rate of between 6.5 and 7%. Vietnam aims to ensure social progress, equality and security, improve social welfares and people’s ling standards, and promote people-centered development. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the Vietnamese government is committed to ensuring security, politics, law and order, and facilitate international organizations, investors and foreigners to live and work in Vietnam. Vietnam consistently pursues a foreign policy of peace, friendship, cooperation, equal and mutually-benefited development and being a friend, a reliable partner with all countries and territories. The Vietnamese Prime Minister reiterated Vietnam’s determination to overcome challenges and wish to receive further support from partners and international organizations in the near future.

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