Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai arrived in Ottawa on June 25, beginning an official visit to Canada at the invitation of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Ottawa
, June 26 (VNA) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai arrived in
Ottawa
on June 25, beginning an official visit to
Canada
at the invitation of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
PM Khai was welcomed at the
Macdonald
Cartier
Airport
by a party led by Mauril Belanger, who is
Canada
s Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, the Minister responsible for Official Languages, the Minister responsible for Democratic Reform and the Associate Minister of National Defence.
Before his departure for
Canada
, PM Khai witnessed the signing in
Boston
, the
US
, of a memorandum of understanding between the International Data Group (IDG) and the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology and the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Under the MoU, the IDG will continue marketing
Viet Nam
s Hoa Lac hi-tech zone to international investors as well as to the science and technology community. It will also help the Hoa Lac zones management board to develop a project on a hi-tech expo centre.
(Source:Vnanet)
