Hanoi, 17 July 2016 - In the framework of official visit to Vietnam, the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico and his delegation paid a working visit to BIDV.

​Viewing Slovakia as a priority market for business development in Central Eastern Europe, BIDV has pioneered in implementing economic, trade and investment cooperation between Vietnam and Slovakia.

BIDV established IDCC Finance Europe Company in 2010, and a representative office and financial company in the Czech Republic in 2012, contributing to connect and promote two-way investment between Vietnam and Eastern European markets.

In May2014, BIDV and financial institutions jointly organized a Forum on Vietnam - Czech Republic - Slovakia Investment Cooperation which received good responses from the business community and the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Reporting to the Prime Minister of Slovakia, a representative of BIDV management made proposals: firstly, the governments of Slovakia and Vietnam should accelerate the implementation of agreements signed between the two countries, focusing on removing difficulties and obstacles encountered during the implementation of the agreements and Slovakia’s key investment projects in Vietnam; secondly,building a specific cooperation framework as well as cooperation mechanism; and thirdly, adopting measures to support and facilitate Slovak businesses to do business in Vietnam.

The Prime Minister appreciated the contributions made by the Vietnamese businesses in general, and BIDV in particular, saying that Slovakia would continue favorable mechanisms to encourage investment, contributing to further promote the traditional friendly relations between Slovakia and Vietnam built over the past 65 years.

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