NA Chairwoman meets Queen of the Netherlands

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan at Noordeinde Palace meets Queen of the Netherlands Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, The Hague, March 26 , 2018

At the reception, Queen Maxima lauded Viet Nam’s efforts in developing the national strategy on inclusive growth to promote full access to financial services, enhance its economic position and develop the country.

The Queen urged the Vietnamese Government to approve a national strategy on comprehensive finance and establish a coordination committee for the strategy. Along with that, Viet Nam should implement a telecommunications correspondent network for payment functions, she said.

The Dutch Queen also proposed Viet Nam pay more attention to training human resources and spend resources to implement this strategy. She said she would discuss with the World Bank to devise policies to help Vietnam implement this strategy effectively.

In turn, National Aseembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said Viet Nam attaches great importance to relations and cooperation with the Netherlands, seeing it as an example of “significant and effective relations” between Viet Nam and a European country.

She recalled Queen Maxima’s visit to Viet Nam in May 2017 in the capacity as the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Comprehensive Finance for Development, during which the Queen shared with Vietnamese authorities information and experience on financial markets in the context of Vietnam developing the field.

“Viet Nam still needs to make more efforts and hopes to continue to receive the attention and support of the international community,” Ngan said, expressing her wish that the Queen, as the representative of the Netherlands and the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Comprehensive Finance for Development, would help mobilise financial and technical resources from the UN and other international organisations to held Viet Nam implement comprehensive financial efficiency.

                                                                                                                                        By  Hoang Ha