(VOVworld)- Vietnamese Minister of Planning and Investment and President of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Park Dae Won signed in Korean a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in green growth.

Earlier, the two leaders reviewed Korean’s non-refundable aid packages for Vietnam, which have increased over the years reaching 20 million USD a year. Minister Vinh said he hoped KOICA would continue assisting Vietnam’s socio economic development especially in infrastructure, human resource development and green growth, the three pillars of the Vietnam-Republic of Korea’s cooperation program. The Korean leader stressed that the Republic of Korea and KOICA in particular always consider Vietnam a reliable and important partner in non-refundable aids. The same day, Minister Bui Quang Vinh and President of Korean Development Institute Oh Seok Hyun witnessed the signing of an agreement on expanding cooperation in Korea’s knowledge sharing program.