WTO Director General: Vietnam is a good model of integration and development

Expressing his impression of Vietnam's socio-economic development achievements in recent times, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that Vietnam is a good model and hopes that Vietnam will share its experiences with developing countries on economic integration and development.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son received WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son received WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

On May 18, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son received WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the occasion of his working visit to Vietnam from May 17 to 19.

At the meeting, WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala highly appreciated Vietnam's active role at the WTO, including participating in important negotiation rounds and contributing to reforming and improving the effectiveness of WTO operations.

Expressing his impression of Vietnam's socio-economic development achievements in recent times, WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that Vietnam is a good model and hopes that Vietnam will share its experiences with developing countries on economic integration and development.

Ms. Okonjo-Iweala shared some of the WTO's cooperation priorities in the coming time, including promoting WTO reform, promptly restoring the full operation of the dispute settlement mechanism, expanding the agenda beyond traditional economic and trade issues, especially e-commerce and investment facilitation, and promoting coordination between the WTO and other international organizations to join hands in responding to global issues such as epidemics, climate change, food security, etc.

The WTO Director General also expressed his hope that Vietnam will actively contribute to the development processes of the WTO, soon ratify the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, towards the success of the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference.

Welcoming Ms. Okonjo-Iweala’s visit to Vietnam, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son believes that the visit will contribute to strengthening the Vietnam-WTO cooperation relationship. The Minister affirmed that Vietnam’s consistent policy is to proactively and actively integrate into the international community and support an open, transparent, fair and rule-based multilateral trading system with the WTO playing a central role.

Minister Bui Thanh Son highly appreciated the leadership role of the Director-General in the current important period of the WTO as well as the policy priorities to enhance the role of the WTO in the multilateral trading system, strengthen the connection and coordination between the WTO and other international organizations, promote the WTO reform process and successfully organize the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (June 2022).

Minister Bui Thanh Son emphasized that as a responsible member of the WTO, Vietnam always strives to promote its proactive and active role in the WTO's cooperation frameworks. The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has and will continue to closely coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to promote Vietnam's positive and constructive contributions to the WTO.

The two sides also discussed training cooperation programs and capacity building of the WTO for Vietnamese officials working in foreign affairs, as well as financial and technical support to help Vietnam integrate more deeply and continue to make practical contributions to WTO activities.

According to nhandan.vn

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