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September 12, 2007
The Russian-Vietnamese business forum
On the 12th of September 2007 Russian-Vietnamese business forum
which had been organized by Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the
Russian Federation together with the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce
and Industry and Embassy of Vietnam in Russia, took place. The
forum was organized in framework of official visit to Russia of
Prime minister of Socialist Republic Vietnam Nguen Tan Zung.
In his opening speech Nguen Tan Zung emphasized Hanoi’s interest in
cooperation with Moscow in many directions and first of all in
those areas where Russia has wide experience and great
possibilities. According to him, such priority directions are
working out of mineral deposits, oil and gas, power, metallurgical,
space industry, spheres of science, education and staff training.
Today in Vietnam 54 projects are carried out with the assistance of
Russian investments for a total sum of about 300 million $, and all
of them are productive, the Prime minister of Vietnam pointed out.
Stable sociopolitical position in the country and also active
economic development are considered to be a favorable condition for
the Russian business. Having reminded, that during the last few
years growth of gross national product of Vietnam was more than 8 %
and now is estimated approximately as 63 billions $, Nguen Tan Zung
declared that his country plans to maintain the next years rates of
gross national product growth at the same level. Vietnam besides is
the market with a great potential where the population numbers 85
million out of which about 75 % are under 40 years. According to
the Prime minister of Vietnam, Russian businessmen will be
satisfied with Vietnamese manpower - «hardworking, dynamical, with
sufficiently high educational level» that many of them had got in
the USSR and Russia.
In the end of the opening speech, Nguen Tan Zung emphasized the
necessity to carry out specific actions for support of businessmen
of the two countries at creation and expansion of direct business
contacts, research of the markets, search of effective forms of
interaction.
In the second part of the plenary session Michael Viktorovich
Slipenchuk elected on the 3rd of September 2007, the Chairman of
the Russian part of the Russian-Vietnamese business council gave
speech. He focused his attention on the idea that to bring
relations between our countries to a new strategic level is
possible only by joint efforts. After all, Russia and Vietnam are
not those they were ten years ago. In both countries there are
active market transformations, but not all Russian companies
appeared to be ready to work in new economic conditions, and many
of them simply left from the Vietnamese market. The important role
in change of the current situation is played by the Russian
-Vietnamese business council to enter in which the largest Russian
companies and banks working with Vietnam or those going in the
short term to establish contacts with Vietnamese business
community, already expressed desire. The Council will carry out its
activity in close contact with Russian-Vietnamese Intergovernmental
Commission on trade and economic and scientific and technical
cooperation.
In his speech M.V. Slipenchuk told about the Group of companies
"METROPOL" - one of the largest investment-industrial groups of
Russia which had united the major branches and lines of economic
activity, such as development of polymetal fields, stock market
trading, work in real estate and insurance markets. The company
actively step up its presence abroad. There already have been
opened official representation offices of the Group in Japan,
China, Serbia, France. The affiliated investment companies operate
in Canada, Great Britain and on Cyprus. M.V. Slipenchuk expressed
hope, that the time when there will be the Group representation in
Hanoi, is not far off. In conclusion the speaker emphasized that
the МETROPOL Group of companies is ready to make advantage of all
knowledge and international experience in framework of the
Russian-Vietnamese business council.
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